A FINE SMALL EARLY MING CELADON-GLAZED BARBED-RIM DISH

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A FINE SMALL EARLY MING CELADON-GLAZED BARBED-RIM DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The flared sides rising to the everted, barbed rim, incised on the exterior with a band of petal lappets below a band of foliate scroll, the interior with a leafy lingzhi meander encircling the nianhao within a barbed quatrefoil panel, all under a glaze of olive-green colour
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) diam.

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Compare with the similar excavated dish included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, 1989, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 67.

Other dishes of this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 114; in the Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, no. 2 and 5.

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