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A VERY RARE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED TIANBAI-GLAZED DISH
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A VERY RARE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED TIANBAI-GLAZED DISH
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(Set Currency)
    HK$1,800,000 - HK$2,500,000
  • ($232,962 - $323,558)

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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 VERY RARE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED TIANBAI-GLAZED DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

Delicately potted with wide rounded sides and a gently flared rim, finely decorated in anhua around the cavetto with two dragons, divided by ruyi-form clouds, the centre evenly spaced with three clusters of cloud-scrolls, applied overall with an unctuous white glaze 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) diam., box


明永樂 甜白釉暗花雲龍紋盤

盤敞口，淺弧腹，圈足。通體滿施甜白釉。盤內底暗劃如意雲三朵，壁飾二龍，游弋於如意雲間。

此盤白釉肥厚瑩潤，白中閃青，迎光可透視暗花。甜白是永樂窰創燒的一種白釉，由於永樂白釉瓷器中許多都薄到半脫胎的程度，迎光見影，在刻暗花的薄胎器面上，施以溫潤如玉的白釉，予人一種「甜」的感受，故名「甜白」。

傳世品中，甜白釉不為多見。在寥若晨星傳世品中，暗龍紋飾差異大約可分為三種：一如此器，刻二龍游弋於如意雲間；另一盤壁刻五龍，盤內心刻四字年款；再一刻鳳凰一雙。

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Very few thinly potted 15th century white dishes, known as tianbai or 'sweet white' glaze, with anhua decoration have survived. Among this rare group of dishes, there appear to be have been slightly differing types of anhua designs. The first group is decorated with a pair of striding dragons chasing each other on the cavetto and three ruyi clouds on the interior, as with the present example and the dish of this same size sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 38. The second group, incised with five dragons on the cavetto and a four-character reign mark on the exterior; such as dish formerly from the collection of Mrs Yale Kneeland, first sold at Sotheby's 2 November 1994, and sold again at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 859. The third, is decorated with a pair of phoenix in anhua; an example of this is the dish from the collections of C.T. Loo, and Dr and Mrs Wilmont Gordon sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 7 July (catalogue dated 28 April) 2003, lot 646.

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