A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE DISH

THE PROPERTY OF A FAR EASTERN GENTLEMAN

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE DISH
YONGLE

Of well-potted barbed and lobed form, the centre painted in underglaze-blue of good tone with some 'heaping and piling' with a composite floral scroll, four larger blooms alternating with four buds, around a central peony, borne on very slender stems with varied leaves, within a double-line barbed medallion, the moulded well with twelve detached floral sprays, repeated on the underside, the rim with a continuous lingzhi scroll between double-line borders, the base unglazed--15 1/8 in. (38.3cm.) diam., box

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Dishes of this patern are recorded by Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebile Shrine, pl. 35, nos. 29.101, 29.106 and 19.109; in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, pl. 19; another example from the Tianminlou Collection is included in Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 6; and two in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, nos. 762 and 763.

D. Lion-Goldschmidt records another example from the collection of the Art Institute, Chicago, in La Porcelaine Ming, no. 52, apparently the only known example bearing a Xuande mark

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