Lot 171
171
PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE EARLY MING SMALL BARBED CELADON DISH XUANDE MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Details
A RARE EARLY MING SMALL BARBED CELADON DISH XUANDE MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
The flared and angled sides rising to the everted, barbed rim, incised on the exterior with a band of petal lappets below a band of foliate scroll, all under a glaze of sea-green color thinning on the edges, mark in center of interior, rim chip--3 1/2in. (8.8cm.) diam., wood stand

Lot Essay

Compare the similar dish included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, 1989, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 67

Other dishes this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 114; in the Kempe Collection, Catalogue no. 160 and in the National Palace Musuem, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the London O.C.S. exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, no. 3 and no. 5