A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
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明宣德 青花纏枝花卉紋盤 六字楷書橫款

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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明宣德 青花纏枝花卉紋盤 六字楷書橫款

盤敞口,弧腹,圈足漸斂。盤心繪四朵蓮花圍著中心花頭。內壁飾六對花卉包括牡丹、菊、蓮、茶花等,口沿內飾回紋一周。外壁飾纏枝各式花卉,口沿外一圈靈芝紋,近底環飾三葉紋。口沿雙線下青花書「大明宣德年製」橫款。

相仿紋飾的青花盤僅見其他二例的著錄。一例為1982年景德鎮珠山出土,見1998年台北出版《景德鎮出土明宣德官窯瓷器》,圖版91號。另一例的大小與本盤相若,為胡惠春、靜觀堂先後收藏。1985年6月4日於紐約蘇富比拍賣,拍品3號;再1997年3月20日於香港佳士得拍賣,拍品71號。

此器源自日本私人收藏。1991年10月29日於香港蘇富比拍賣,拍品30A號;再2007年5月29日於香港佳士得拍賣,拍品1353號。

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A Japanese private collection
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 1991, lot 30A
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1353

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Angela Kung
Angela Kung

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Blue and white dishes bearing Xuande reign marks of this design are extremely rare. Of the published dishes of this type and date, almost all have a lotus blossom as the central flowerhead, lotus scroll in the well and chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior, unlike the composite foliate scroll of paired blooms which decorates both the well and exterior of the present dish.

Only two other examples of dishes of this very rare pattern appear to have been published. One was excavated at Zhushan in 1982 and published in Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taiwan, 1998, pl. 91. The other, of similar size to the present example, from the J.M. Hu and the Jingguantang collections, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 4 June 1985, lot 3 and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1997, lot 71.

Of the dishes decorated with lotus and chrysanthemum scroll some bear a Xuande mark and some are unmarked. See the marked example in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White, London, 1954, pl. 16, and an unmarked example illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London 1994, p. 49, where the author notes that the use or lack of a mark 'may either signify different destinations, the court or export - or different dates Xuande or Yongle - or both'.

The other distinguishing motif on this dish, the conjoined trefoil band at the base of the exterior walls, is also found on an unmarked dish illustrated by John Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 34 (29.98), which is the most similar to the present dish, also having pairs of different flowers incorporated into the foliate scroll in the well.

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