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Lot Essay
This striking style was achieved by painting in underglaze blue, applying a normal colourless porcelain glaze and firing the piece. After firing the yellow enamel was applied to the ground area, carefully avoiding all the areas with blue underglaze painting. The piece was then refired.
A number of dishes of this pattern are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: one illustrated in Special Exhibition of Ch'eng Hua Porcelain, Taipei, 1976, no. 139; another illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, pl.11; and two included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pls. 72 and 73. Another, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, vol. II, col. pl. 16. Others are illustrated in the Percival David Foundation Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, Section 5, London, 1978, pl. III, no. 26; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Hobson in the The Wares of Ming Dynasty, London, 1923, and again by Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 153.
An almost identical dish was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, March 20, 1997, lot 140.
A number of dishes of this pattern are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: one illustrated in Special Exhibition of Ch'eng Hua Porcelain, Taipei, 1976, no. 139; another illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, pl.11; and two included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pls. 72 and 73. Another, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, vol. II, col. pl. 16. Others are illustrated in the Percival David Foundation Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, Section 5, London, 1978, pl. III, no. 26; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Hobson in the The Wares of Ming Dynasty, London, 1923, and again by Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 153.
An almost identical dish was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, March 20, 1997, lot 140.