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Lot Essay
Compare with two very similar dishes, also bearing Jiajing six-character marks within double-squares, illustrated in Ch'eng-hua Porcelain Ware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2003, nos. 187 and 188. An example is also in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.185. Compare also a number of examples sold at auction including one at Christie's Hong Kong, 25 October 1993, lot 730; and two at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 221 and 31 October 2004, lot 116.
For earlier Chenghua-marked prototypes with this rare doucai pattern see three examples also in Taipei, illustrated op. cit., Taipei, 2003, nos. 184-186; another in the Percival David Foundation included by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, Hong Kong, 1970, pl. 28 c, also included in the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Special Exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, Catalogue, no. 176; and one illustrated in the Min Chiu Society, Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1990, Catalogue, no. 143.
For earlier Chenghua-marked prototypes with this rare doucai pattern see three examples also in Taipei, illustrated op. cit., Taipei, 2003, nos. 184-186; another in the Percival David Foundation included by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, Hong Kong, 1970, pl. 28 c, also included in the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Special Exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, Catalogue, no. 176; and one illustrated in the Min Chiu Society, Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1990, Catalogue, no. 143.