A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
YONGLE

Painted in brilliant tones to the centre of the interior with a composite floral arabesque of four large flower-heads including peony, mallow, and camellia, with three smaller blooms and a fruit on slender interlaced scrolling stems, the deep well with a continuous composite floral-scroll of eleven flower-heads including pomegranate, camellia and peony below cresting waves at the flaring rim, the exterior with a further composite scroll of eleven flower-heads, the cobalt with extensive 'heaping and piling' highlighting the design, the base unglazed (lightly ground in two small sections of rim)
16 in. (41 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Collection of the Barlow Gallery, University of Sussex.
Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow.
The Le May Collection.
Literature
Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, pl. 131a, no. C140.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 17.

Similar examples are illustrated in various works including Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Catalogue, no. 5; Mingdai Taoci Daquan, p. 156; J.A. Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 34, no. 29.88; J. Ayers, Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. II, no. A140; Philadelphia Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, 1994, Catalogue, no. 38; Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze-Red, Catalogue, p. 63, no. 9; the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 37; Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East, vol. III, no. A36, the example from Ardebil; the Exhibition of Far Eastern Blue and White Porcelain, Tokyo, 1977, Catalogue, no. 19; the Exhibition, Arts of the Silk Road, Fuji Art Museum, 1990, Catalogue, no. 243; and Toji Taikei, no. 42, pl. 36.

Compare with the dish sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 548 and the one sold in our London Rooms, 10 June 1996, lot 73.

(US$90,000-120,000)

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