拍品专文
A similar dish was included in the Philadelphia Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, 1949, Catalogue no.39; another from the Dreyfus Collection was included in the London Oriental Ceramics Society Exhibition of the Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, Catalogue no. 119; one from the Iran Bastan Museum, Teheran, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, no.188; another in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.14, pl.148; Pope illustrates three in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pls.30, no.29.1 and 31, nos.29.3 and 29.6.
A smaller dish of the same design but with a classic scroll border around the interior in place of the present wave design from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; another from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt.2, col. pl.38 and the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Early Ming Period Porcelain, nos.39 and 41; a third is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol.II, no.10; Pope, ibid. pl.31, no.29.21 illustrates a fourth; another example from the S.C.Ko Tianminlou Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, pt.I, col.pl.10; another sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 565 while a further example from the T.Y. Chao Collection was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 1975, Catalogue, no.8
Similar dishes with wave borders but on everted rims are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, no.113; another from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no.136; Pope, ibid. pl.31, no. 29.33 illustrates a further example, while another with traces of Arabic and Persian inscriptions sold in these rooms, 11 July 1977, lot 110
The present example may be called a 'bouquet plate' and belongs to an important group of early Ming blue and white export ware together with 'grape plates', 'melon plates' and 'dragon plates'. Pope, ibid. p.92, notes 34 variously sized 'bouquet' examples from the Ardebil Shrine which constitute an excellent study set indicating the ranging intensity of the cobalt between dishes and the diversity between the decoration albeit based on a master pattern.
The bouquet design was popular in the 18th Century; the pattern was copied very accurately, and the 'heaping and piling' -an 'accident' in the early Ming period- was considered very desirable though rarely convincingly copied
A smaller dish of the same design but with a classic scroll border around the interior in place of the present wave design from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; another from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt.2, col. pl.38 and the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Early Ming Period Porcelain, nos.39 and 41; a third is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol.II, no.10; Pope, ibid. pl.31, no.29.21 illustrates a fourth; another example from the S.C.Ko Tianminlou Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, pt.I, col.pl.10; another sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 565 while a further example from the T.Y. Chao Collection was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 1975, Catalogue, no.8
Similar dishes with wave borders but on everted rims are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, no.113; another from the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no.136; Pope, ibid. pl.31, no. 29.33 illustrates a further example, while another with traces of Arabic and Persian inscriptions sold in these rooms, 11 July 1977, lot 110
The present example may be called a 'bouquet plate' and belongs to an important group of early Ming blue and white export ware together with 'grape plates', 'melon plates' and 'dragon plates'. Pope, ibid. p.92, notes 34 variously sized 'bouquet' examples from the Ardebil Shrine which constitute an excellent study set indicating the ranging intensity of the cobalt between dishes and the diversity between the decoration albeit based on a master pattern.
The bouquet design was popular in the 18th Century; the pattern was copied very accurately, and the 'heaping and piling' -an 'accident' in the early Ming period- was considered very desirable though rarely convincingly copied