拍品專文
Lotus bouquet dishes of this small size are rare. Pope records two in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl.30, nos.29.16-17
Cf. a larger example from the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; another from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt. 2, col. pl. 38 also included in the Special Exhibition of Early Ming Period Porcelain, Catalogue, nos. 39 and 41; a third is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istambul, vol. II, no. 10; Pope, ibid. pl. 31, no. 29.21 illustrates a fourth; while a further example from the T.Y. Chao Collection was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 1975, Catalogue, no. 8
A larger example was sold in our London Rooms, 10 December 1990, no. 165; and another was sold in these Rooms,026 September 1989, lot 565
Cf. a larger example from the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; another from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt. 2, col. pl. 38 also included in the Special Exhibition of Early Ming Period Porcelain, Catalogue, nos. 39 and 41; a third is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istambul, vol. II, no. 10; Pope, ibid. pl. 31, no. 29.21 illustrates a fourth; while a further example from the T.Y. Chao Collection was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 1975, Catalogue, no. 8
A larger example was sold in our London Rooms, 10 December 1990, no. 165; and another was sold in these Rooms,026 September 1989, lot 565