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A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BARBED-RIM DISH
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    HK$3,000,000 - HK$4,000,000
  • ($388,270 - $517,693)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BARBED-RIM DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

The central medallion well-painted in soft violet-blue tones with composite floral blooms to include peony, lotus, camellia, pomegranate and mallow, borne on slender interlaced vines within a shaped panel of double-lines conforming to the gently fluted cavetto, designed with twelve detached floral sprays repeated on the exterior, the broad everted mouth rim with a band of lingzhi scroll within double-line borders, the base unglazed
14 7/8 in. (38 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box


明永樂 青花纏枝花卉紋花口盤

盤菱花，折沿，淺弧壁、廣底、圈足。通體青花紋飾。盤心繪牡丹花、茶花、蓮花、石榴花、秋葵等；內、外壁繪十二朵折枝花，分別蓮花、牡丹、菊花、牽牛花等六種形態各異的四季花卉；折沿繪一周纏枝靈芝紋。

此盤造型精巧樸實，胎質細膩，青花色澤鮮艷，釉色瑩潤。構圖豐滿有秩，畫技精美，雅緻宜人。

此器源自日本繭山龍泉堂，1989年於福山城博物館舉行之《70件中國瓷器傑作》展中展出，著錄於展覽目錄圖版45號。

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THE PROPERTY OF A JAPANESE COLLECTOR

Provenance

Mayuyama Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Exhibited

Fukuyama Castle Museum, 1989, 70 Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no 45

Lot Notes

A number of dishes of this pattern have been published. Compare a very similar foliate-rim dish illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 35, nos. 29.101, 29.106, and 29.109; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, 1994, no. 662; from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, Book I, Hong Kong, 1963, pls. 22 and 22a; and the dish formerly from the collection of Mrs Walter Sedgwick, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 116, fig. 3:35. For a discussion of the evolution of the design on Ottoman wares of the early 16th century with illustrated reference to examples of the Chinese prototype and the Iznik equivalent in the British Museum, see J. Rawson, Chinese Ornament: the Lotus and the Dragon, London, 1990, p. 185, fig. 163.

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