A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WRITTEN IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1465-1487)

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A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WRITTEN IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1465-1487)
Sturdily potted with shallow sides, the interior centre painted to depict a single branch of flowering pomegranate growing two large blooms in profile, detailed with leaves and buds, the cavetto with four fruiting branches including peach, lychee, persimmon and cherry blossom between double-cirle borders, the exterior with four evenly spaced lotus sprays, the reign mark written in a horizontal line under the everted mouth rim, underside base fired in the biscuit
11 3/4 in. (29.6 cm.) diam., box

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Greenwald Collection, no. 77

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Compare with two Chenghua-marked dishes of similar size and designed with this 'pomegranate' pattern: the first in the Shanghai Museum illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue & Red, Shanghai Museum, 1987, p. 90, col. pl. 80; and the other in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Japan, 1975, no. 58.

Two Chenghua examples both decorated with this exact pattern against a yellow enamel ground are illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-Hua Porcelain Ware, National Palace Museum, 2003, p. 104-105, nos. 86-87. See also a Chenghua-marked yellow-ground dish painted with flowering gardenia in underglaze-blue, ibid., p. 106, no. 88. These floral spray patterns were first pioneered during the Xuande period. Compare earlier examples included in the exhibition, Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, p. 85, no. 84 (pomegranate spray); and p. 86-87, nos. 85-1-3 (three dishes, each with a flowering peony spray). This style was popularly revived in the Chenghua, Hongzhi, Zhengde and Jiajing reigns. A similar Zhengde-marked dish of this flowering pomegranate pattern from the same collection is offered in the current sale, lot 2805.