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拍品专文
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P107d18 is consistent with the date of this lot.
This is a particularly interesting Yuan dynasty blue and white dish since both the central panel decoration and the floral band around the rim of this dish are very rare. While lotuses are a frequent choice of motif for the centre of large Yuan blue and white dishes (as on several dishes in the collection of the Ardebil Shrine, now housed in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, for example those illustrated by John A. Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1981 edition, nos. 29.123 and 29.129, plate 22) the inclusion of a pair of mandarin ducks is less often seen. When the ducks do appear they are customarily shown swimming towards each other in an almost symmetrical design, as on another dish also in the Ardebil Shrine collection (illustrated by John A. Pope op. cit, no. 29.38, plate 7). A very small number dishes with the ducks swimming side by side among lotuses, as on the current dish, are known in international museums. A dish with this decoration in the centre is in the collection of the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, Philip Wilson publishers, London, 1986, p. 495, no. 569). Fragments of a Yuan dish with similar decoration in the central panel was found at the site of the 14th century Tughlaq Palace in Delhi (illustrated by E. Smart in 'Fourteenth Century Chinese Porcelain from a Tughlaq Palace in Delhi', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 41,
1975-77, p. 220, plate 81d).
The floral scroll in low relief and reserved in white against the blue striated ground on the rim of the current dish is also very rare. However it can be found on one of the dishes with central lotus design in the collection of the Ardebil Shrine (see above plate 22, no. 29.129). In Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, op. cit., the author, John Pope, describes this as a chrysanthemum scroll. It is interesting that the same Ardebil dish also shares another feature with the current dish. In the cavetto of both dishes a floral scroll is reserved in white against a striated blue ground. The outlines and details of the scroll appear in low moulded relief, which is a relatively common feature on the early dishes of this type with bracket-lobed rims. Less common is the highlighting of certain details using fine blue-painted lines. Similar highlighting can be seen on the moulded reserved floral scroll in the cavetto of a bracket-lobed Yuan blue and white porcelain dish in the collection of the Topkapi Saray (illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, op. cit., p. 492, no. 562).
This is a particularly interesting Yuan dynasty blue and white dish since both the central panel decoration and the floral band around the rim of this dish are very rare. While lotuses are a frequent choice of motif for the centre of large Yuan blue and white dishes (as on several dishes in the collection of the Ardebil Shrine, now housed in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, for example those illustrated by John A. Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1981 edition, nos. 29.123 and 29.129, plate 22) the inclusion of a pair of mandarin ducks is less often seen. When the ducks do appear they are customarily shown swimming towards each other in an almost symmetrical design, as on another dish also in the Ardebil Shrine collection (illustrated by John A. Pope op. cit, no. 29.38, plate 7). A very small number dishes with the ducks swimming side by side among lotuses, as on the current dish, are known in international museums. A dish with this decoration in the centre is in the collection of the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul (illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, Philip Wilson publishers, London, 1986, p. 495, no. 569). Fragments of a Yuan dish with similar decoration in the central panel was found at the site of the 14th century Tughlaq Palace in Delhi (illustrated by E. Smart in 'Fourteenth Century Chinese Porcelain from a Tughlaq Palace in Delhi', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 41,
1975-77, p. 220, plate 81d).
The floral scroll in low relief and reserved in white against the blue striated ground on the rim of the current dish is also very rare. However it can be found on one of the dishes with central lotus design in the collection of the Ardebil Shrine (see above plate 22, no. 29.129). In Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, op. cit., the author, John Pope, describes this as a chrysanthemum scroll. It is interesting that the same Ardebil dish also shares another feature with the current dish. In the cavetto of both dishes a floral scroll is reserved in white against a striated blue ground. The outlines and details of the scroll appear in low moulded relief, which is a relatively common feature on the early dishes of this type with bracket-lobed rims. Less common is the highlighting of certain details using fine blue-painted lines. Similar highlighting can be seen on the moulded reserved floral scroll in the cavetto of a bracket-lobed Yuan blue and white porcelain dish in the collection of the Topkapi Saray (illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, op. cit., p. 492, no. 562).