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Lot Essay
The present dish is decorated with five lotus blossoms in the centre and below a composite floral scroll that is repeated on the exterior between a band of conjoined trefoils and a narrow band of lingzhi-scroll motif.
Of the published dishes of this type and date, almost all have a chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior, unlike the composite foliate scroll which decorates both the well and exterior of the present dish. See a Xuande dish decorated with chrysanthemum scrolls, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 2812. Compare also with a very similar example painted with composite floral scroll, discovered at Zhushan in 1982 and published in Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. 92; and one example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 3972 (fig. 1).
Early 15th century dishes of this pattern are very rarely marked. See an unmarked Yongle example with chrysanthemum on the exterior, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, London, 1994, p.49, no.662; and two examples recorded by Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington D.C., 1956, no. 29.118-119.
Of the published dishes of this type and date, almost all have a chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior, unlike the composite foliate scroll which decorates both the well and exterior of the present dish. See a Xuande dish decorated with chrysanthemum scrolls, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 2812. Compare also with a very similar example painted with composite floral scroll, discovered at Zhushan in 1982 and published in Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. 92; and one example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 3972 (fig. 1).
Early 15th century dishes of this pattern are very rarely marked. See an unmarked Yongle example with chrysanthemum on the exterior, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, London, 1994, p.49, no.662; and two examples recorded by Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington D.C., 1956, no. 29.118-119.