A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

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A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
YONGLE

With rounded sides, the slightly recessed centre painted with five lotus flowers growing from thin interlaced leafy stems issuing unusually from a naturalistically-painted lotus leaf, bordered by triple-lines surrounded by a continuous composite floral scroll comprising lotus, chrysanthemum and peony blooms below breaking waves around the rim, the reverse repeating the well decoration but with morning glory and gardenia in addition arranged in pairs between a lingzhi band around the rim and a rare band of trefoils around the base, the cobalt blue of strong inky tone with 'heaping and piling'
15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Lindberg Collection.
The British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 17.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Ming Blue and White from Swedish Collections, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1964, Catalogue, no. 17.

Lot Essay

Sold in Hong Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 59.

The presence of the naturalistically-painted lotus leaf from which the blooms issue and the trefoils around the rim lend this design its especially distinctive character.

A similar dish from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, was included in the Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelains, 1982, Catalogue, no. 40. Two more are illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 34, no. 29.98 and Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East, vol. III, p. 122, no. A.38. Another is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 754.

(US$130,000-200,000)

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