HONGZHI SIX CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A yellow-ground and underglaze-blue saucer dish
Hongzhi six character mark and of the period
Painted in underglaze-blue with a central double line roundel enclosing a hibiscus branch bearing two flowers within a border of detached branches of pomegranate, persimmon, grapevine and lotus in the interior, the exterior with seven stylised peony-heads on a continuous floral meander, all on a ground of yellow enamel, the yellow possibly added later, two hairlines
24.7 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A number of dishes of this pattern are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: one illustrated in Special Exhibition of Ch'eng Hua Porcelain, Taipei, 1976, no. 139; another illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, pl.11; and two included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pls. 72 and 73. Another, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, vol. II, col. pl. 16. Others are illustrated in the Percival David Foundation Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, Section 5, London, 1978, pl. III, no. 26; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Hobson in the The Wares of Ming Dynasty, London, 1923, and again by Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 153.
An almost identical dish was sold in our London Rooms, 15 November 2000, lot 21.

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