A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING SMALL CELADON BARBED-RIM DISH

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A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING SMALL CELADON BARBED-RIM DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The flared and angled sides rising to the everted barbed rim, incised on the exterior with a band of petal lappets below a band of foliate scrolls and to the interior with a floral meander around the clearly inscribed mark, all under a glaze of sea-green tone thinning on the edges
3 1/4 in. (8.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

A European collector, sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 563.

Exhibited

Royal Academy of Arts, London, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-36, no. 1022.

Lot Essay

Compare with the similar excavated dish included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Period, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1989, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 67.

Other dishes of this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, no. 160 and in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe and the Clark collections were included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, nos. 2 and 5.

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