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Lot Essay
This current dish is remarkable for its attractive and thick yellow enamel, reminiscent of chicken oil, as well as the rich and vivid tones of cobalt blue. Zhengde dishes of this type decorated with pomegranate flowers are rare in the market. This superb example has impeccable provenance, formerly in the esteemed Manno Art Museum in Osaka.
A number of comparable examples is preserved in important museums, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing (fig. 1), illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 35: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, no. 232; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and- White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, Book IV, Hong Kong, 1963, p. 66, no. 13; and another in the Percival David Collection, now housed in the British Museum, London, registration number: PDF. 779.
Another similar example also decorated with pomegranate flowers, formerly in the Sir Quo-Wei Lee Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 127.
A number of comparable examples is preserved in important museums, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing (fig. 1), illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 35: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, no. 232; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and- White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, Book IV, Hong Kong, 1963, p. 66, no. 13; and another in the Percival David Collection, now housed in the British Museum, London, registration number: PDF. 779.
Another similar example also decorated with pomegranate flowers, formerly in the Sir Quo-Wei Lee Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 127.