A Large Ming-Style Blue and White Dish

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

细节

A Large Ming-Style Blue and White Dish
Yongzheng Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue within a Double Circle and of the Period
With rounded sides, the interior well painted in fifteenth century style in subtly shaded underglaze blue with seven lobed melons borne on a leafy, flowering vine below a band of composite foliate scroll in the well, the everted rim painted with a wave border within a molded outer edge, with six detached fruiting branches on the exterior, including peach, lychee, pomegranate, crab apple, loquat and cherry
17.7/8in. (45.5cm.) diam.

展览

London, Christie's, Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 - 14 December 1993, no. 81.

拍品专文

This design is based on Yongle fifteenth century prototypes, examples of which are illustrated by J.A. Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, pl. 40, no. 29.61, and in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition catalogue, Jingdezhen Wares, The Yuan Evolution, 1984, no. 142, from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee. However, while the Yongle examples generally bear two melons, and the plant is shown rooted to the ground, the Yongzheng examples have a design of a scrolling vine usually bearing seven melons. Compare the Yongzheng-marked dish of this size illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1987, col. pl. 53.