A YELLOW-GLAZED SAUCER DISH

HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Details
A YELLOW-GLAZED SAUCER DISH
Hongzhi Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue Within a Double Circle and of the Period
With rounded sides rising from a tapering ring foot, covered inside and out with a thin glaze of soft lemon-yellow tone
8 7/16in. (21.5cm.) diam., box
Exhibited
Singapore, The Empress Place Museum, Gems of Chinese Art, Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, 1992 - 1995, no. 80

Lot Essay

Compare other Hongzhi-marked, yellow-glazed dishes of this size in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelains, New York, 1981, pl. 113; illustrated in the Asia Society Handbook of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, p. 79 (top); two in the Catalogue of the Percival David Foundation, section 6, nos. 591 and 599; one from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Hall included in the O.C.S. Jubilee Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, Catalogue, no. 161, pl. 114; one illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, London, 1986, col. pl. 774; and one from the Tiannminlou Collection included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, Catalogue, no. 154

A Hongzhi-marked, yellow-glazed dish from the Scheinman Collection was sold in these rooms, March 23, 1995, lot 95