A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW SAUCER-DISH

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A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW SAUCER-DISH
ENCIRCLED ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With rounded sides rising to a flared rim from the tapered ring foot, covered inside and out with an attractive glaze of even, egg-yolk yellow tone
7 in. (17.4 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
B. and V. Lake Collection., no. 88.
Exhibited
Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, October- December 1948, no. 175.

Lot Essay

Similar Zhengde-marked dishes of this size are included in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 6, no. 597; illustrated by Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, Catalogue, p. 93, no. 69; and the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by Legeza in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl. XCV, no. 260. Others were included in the Exhibition of Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, October 1970-January 1971, Catalogue, p. 65, no. 37, from the collection of Samuel C. Davis, and in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, October-December, 1948, Catalogue, no. 195.

(US$16,000-20,000)

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