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Lot Essay
Dishes of this pattern were apparently popular in the Near East. One in the Art Institute of Chicago was included in the University of Chicago exhibition catalogue, Blue and White, 1985, no. 22, where it is noted that dishes of this type were widely exported to the Near East and that their influence can be seen in Persia, Syria and Egypt. One of the dishes that found its way to the Near East is illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelain in the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, D.C., 1956, pl. 34, fig. 29.88, and another inscribed in Farsi around the foot rim with the name of the Emperor Shah Jehan and the date corresponding to 1632 is illustrated by P. Hardie, "China's Ceramic Trade with India", T.O.C.S., 1983-4, vol. 48, p. 19, pl. 3.
Other dishes of this pattern and shape are in public and private collections: J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, pl. A140; M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, p. 126 and pl. 131a; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 251, pl. 756; a Tokyo private collection, C. and M. Beurdeley, A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1974, p. 179, pl. 55; S. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p. 67, no. 61; and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 52, no. 664. An example lent by C. T. Loo was included in the exhibition catalogue, Blue Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 19 - December 4, 1949, pp. 12 and 36, no. 38 and a dish excavated in 1994 at Dongmentou, Zhushan was included in the exhibition catalogue, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, pp. 152-3, no. 44. Compare, also, the dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26-27 September 1989, lot 567.
Other dishes of this pattern and shape are in public and private collections: J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, pl. A140; M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, p. 126 and pl. 131a; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 251, pl. 756; a Tokyo private collection, C. and M. Beurdeley, A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1974, p. 179, pl. 55; S. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p. 67, no. 61; and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 52, no. 664. An example lent by C. T. Loo was included in the exhibition catalogue, Blue Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 19 - December 4, 1949, pp. 12 and 36, no. 38 and a dish excavated in 1994 at Dongmentou, Zhushan was included in the exhibition catalogue, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, pp. 152-3, no. 44. Compare, also, the dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26-27 September 1989, lot 567.