A MING IMPERIAL YELLOW DISH potted with well-rounded sides rising to an everted rim, all under an even egg-yolk yellow glaze thinning slightly at the rim (glaze slightly scratched), Zhengde six-character mark and of the period

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A pair of similar dishes are illustrated by Joseph, Ming Porcelains, pl.103. Others were included in the London Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, 1948, Catalogue, no.184, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art Museum of Art Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, 1977, Catalogue, no. 81, Cf. also the similar Zhengde dishes in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by Legeza, Malcolm MacDonald Collection, Catalogue, pl.XCV, no. 260

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