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Lot Essay
A dish of the same size, shape and bearing the same decoration was excavated from the Yongle stratum of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen in 1994; see Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, pp.152-3, no. 44. Another dish of the same size and decoration as the present dish is in the Palace Museum, Beijing; see the Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, 2000, p.146, no. 138. A third dish of the same type is in the collection of The Percival David Foundation; see Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze-blue and Copper-red Decorated porcelains, Percival David Foundation, London, 1976, no. A663.
Compare smaller bracket-lobed dishes dating to the Yongle reign with a similar design, but with individual scrolling floral elements in the lobe of the well, as exemplified by the dish in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (1), p. 62, no. 59. Another of bracket-lobed variety is in The National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum - Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, book 1, Hong Kong, 1963, pp. 84-5, pl. 23
Compare smaller bracket-lobed dishes dating to the Yongle reign with a similar design, but with individual scrolling floral elements in the lobe of the well, as exemplified by the dish in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (1), p. 62, no. 59. Another of bracket-lobed variety is in The National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum - Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, book 1, Hong Kong, 1963, pp. 84-5, pl. 23