A FINE AND RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE YELLOW-GROUND DISH

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A FINE AND RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE YELLOW-GROUND DISH
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITH DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Freely painted in outline and washed in shades of cobalt in the centre with a branch of flowering pomegranate within double line borders, the interior cavetto with four detached sprays of fruiting peach, lychee, cherry and persimmon, and the exterior with four spaced lotus flower-heads flanked by spikey leaves borne on trailing scrolled stems, all against a bright Imperial yellow enamelled ground, except for the base covered in a clear glaze
11 5/8 (29.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Manno Art Museum, no. 435.

Literature

Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 115.

Lot Essay

Cf. Zhengde dishes of this pattern, two in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 98; and in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, pl. 13; one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kondasha Series, vol. 10, Japan, 1980, pl. 48; one illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, pl. 154; one in the Percival David Foundation illustrated in the Catalogue, section 5, no. 779; one in the Idemitsu Museum of Art 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 789; and another formerly from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 41.

For a study of the two patterns in blue and white of these wares, see H. Garner, 'Blue and White Ware of the Middle Ming Period', T. O. C. S., vol. 27, 1951-53, pp. 61-71.

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