Lot Essay
Early Ming dishes of this pattern were sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 565; and in our London Rooms, 10 December 1990, lot 165.
Compare also with several Ming dishes painted with the lotus bouquet illustrated in Ming & Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Catalogue, pl. 4; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelain, Catalogue, fig. 39 which is a variation with a wave band on the interior mouth rim; another from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, pl. 397; and one from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, illustrated by Carswell, Blue and White, fig. 21, where it is noted that this dish exemplified the stylistic break with the fourteenth-century style by decorating with a more naturalistic feeling as seen in the asymmetrical arrangement of the central bouquet.
(US$16,000-24,000)
Compare also with several Ming dishes painted with the lotus bouquet illustrated in Ming & Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Catalogue, pl. 4; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelain, Catalogue, fig. 39 which is a variation with a wave band on the interior mouth rim; another from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, pl. 397; and one from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, illustrated by Carswell, Blue and White, fig. 21, where it is noted that this dish exemplified the stylistic break with the fourteenth-century style by decorating with a more naturalistic feeling as seen in the asymmetrical arrangement of the central bouquet.
(US$16,000-24,000)