A FINE AND VERY RARE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED TIANBAI DISH

YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

Details

A FINE AND VERY RARE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED TIANBAI DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
Exceptionally thinly potted with wide rounded sides and a gently flared rim, the dish is finely decorated in anhua around the cavetto with the Eight Buddhist Emblems each supported above a lotus stem, the centre with a yinyang design within a floral outline formed by two double-vajra crossed with their heads joined by interlaced ruyi scrolls, applied overall with a lustrous white glaze
6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Frederick M. Mayer Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 17 December 1980, lot 615
The T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 65

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Please note that this lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

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Lot Essay

A dish of similar design, but lacking the Eight Buddhist Emblems in the well, and of a smaller size (15.7 cm. diam.) in the Kempe Collection is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1964, no. 672.

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