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Lot Essay
A Yongle dish of almost identical size and design was sold at Sotheby's New York, 19 September 2002, lot 105; and a second from the Norton and R.H.R Palmer Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 17 January 1989, lot 562. Two Yongle bracket-lobed dishes of comparable size and similarly decorated with registers of various flowerheads include one included in Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clarke, London, 1974, no. 7, and later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 314; and another from the Hobart and F. Gordon Morrill Collections was sold at Doyle New York, 16 September 2003, lot 80.
A Hongwu prototype of this design, made as a cup stand, with the petal collar in the centre painted onto a raised ring, was recovered from the Imperial Kiln site and included in the exhibitions Jingdezhen Ware, the Yuan Evolution, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1984, no. 141, and Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, no. 18.
This design is also known with waves decorating the rim; compare a dish of this type in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum's exhibition Mingdai chunian ciqi tezhan, Taipei, 1982, no. 42.
A Hongwu prototype of this design, made as a cup stand, with the petal collar in the centre painted onto a raised ring, was recovered from the Imperial Kiln site and included in the exhibitions Jingdezhen Ware, the Yuan Evolution, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1984, no. 141, and Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, no. 18.
This design is also known with waves decorating the rim; compare a dish of this type in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum's exhibition Mingdai chunian ciqi tezhan, Taipei, 1982, no. 42.