A SMALL CELADON-GLAZED BARBED DISH

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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A SMALL CELADON-GLAZED BARBED DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The sides flaring from the foot rim to an angle where they flare out in a gentle curve to the petal-barbed rim, the sides of the interior incised with foliate scroll above the underglaze-blue mark, and the exterior similarly incised below the rim and with leaf tips above the foot, covered inside and out with a glaze of sea-green tone
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) across, box

拍品专文

Several similar dishes with Xuande marks and Longquan-type glazes are recorded, including an excavated example which was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1989, Imperial Porcelain of Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, p. 217, no. 67. Two similar dishes from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the O.C.S. exhibition of Celadon Wares, London, 1947, nos. 3 and 5. Another in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, was included in the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, 1998, pp. 192-3, no. 69.

See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 721.