AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

细节

AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
YONGLE

The central medallion painted in rich cobalt blue with 'heaping and piling' with a ribbon-tied bouquet of long, slender stems of lotus blossoms, leaves, a pod and water plants, encircled by a single and then double line border below a composite foliate scroll comprised of thirteen blooms, all in pairs but one, and a narrow band of classic scroll at the rim, with a similar foliate frieze on the exterior between a key-pattern border below and a classic scroll border above, the base unglazed, some glaze abrasion--13½in. (34.2cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

Compare a similarly decorated dish of this size in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; one from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt. 2, col. pl. 59; another from the T.Y. Chao Collection included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1975, Catalogue no. 8; and the example from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, pt. I, col. pl. 10 and also included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Joined Colors, Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1993, Catalogue no. 7