XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE YELLOW-ENAMELLED DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The dish is well potted with rounded sides rising from a cylindrical foot to an everted rim, covered inside and out with an iridescent egg-yolk yellow enamel, the base covered with a transparent glaze.
4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Bluett & Sons, London, 1938
Raymond F.A. Riesco Collection, no. 191
Sold at Sotheby's London, 11 December 1984, lot 278

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Lot Essay

The current dish is extremely rare and appears to be one of the smallest known examples of Xuande-marked yellow-enamelled dishes. One other yellow-enamelled dish of the same size in the Alfred Clark Collection was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, cat. no. 180. A slightly larger example measureing at 12.8 cm. diam. is in the National Museum of China, and illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu, ciqi juan, Mingdai, Shanghai, 2007, no. 49.

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