ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

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A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'GARDENIA' DISH
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)
The dish is decorated in the center with a blossoming gardenia branch surrounded by four flowering or fruiting sprays of ribbon-tied lotus, peach, grape and pomegranate, with a band of peony scroll on the exterior below the everted rim, all within double-line borders and painted in gradated washes of cobalt blue reserved against a pale lemon-yellow enamel ground.
10 in. (25.6 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box

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Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. The amount of the import tariff due is a percentage of the final hammer price plus buyer’s premium. The buyer should contact Post Sale Services prior to the sale to determine the estimated amount of the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie’s to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address, the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie’s to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. For the purpose of calculating sales tax, if applicable, the import tariff will be added to the final hammer price plus buyer’s premium and sales tax will be collected as per The Buyer’s Premium and Taxes section of the Conditions of Sale.

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Lot Essay

Imperial porcelains in the Zhengde period were often inspired by the decoration of earlier prototypes. The pattern of this dish was introduced in the Xuande period and continued to be made throughout the sixteenth century. Compare a dish of the same size and pattern illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 204, no. 8:23.
Other examples of slightly smaller size, some with slight variances in the positioning of the ribbon-tied lotus and grape, are in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, pl. 37; the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, pl. 187; the Koger Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in the exhibition Catalogue, p. 96, no. 72; the Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by S. Valenstein, Ming Porcelains, and another in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, included in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1984, Catalogue no. 63.

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