A MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED SAUCER-DISH

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF

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

The shallow, rounded sides springing from a tapered foot rim, covered inside and out with a yellow glaze of soft egg-yolk tone thinning slightly at the rim--8¾in. (22.2cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A comparable dish of this unusually large size is illustrated in the Asia Society Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, pl. 79. Cf. also a slightly smaller example in the Eli Lilly Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated by Mino and Robinson in the Catalogue, 1983, pl. 98

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