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A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCER-DISH
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    HK$700,000 - HK$900,000
  • ($90,596 - $116,481)

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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 FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCER-DISH
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Finely potted with rounded sides rising to a flared rim from a tapered ring foot, covered inside and out with an attractive glaze of even, egg-yolk yellow tone, the base with a transparent glaze with a bluish tinge
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., box


明正德 黃釉盤 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

盤撇口，弧腹，圈足。通體滿施嬌嫩的雞油黃釉，溫潤無比。底內白釉地雙圈內青花書「大明正德年製」楷書款。此種黃釉盤乃終明一代皇家之御器。

此器為張宗憲之舊藏，1993年6月2-14日於倫敦佳士得張宗憲瓷器珍藏展中展出，展品22號。

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Provenance

The Robert Chang collection

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, p. 58, no. 22

Lot Notes

Several Zhengde-marked yellow-glazed dishes of this size are known: one illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 41; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Ming and Ch'ing Monochromes, Section 6, no. 597; an example illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 69; one in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by L. Legeza, The Malcolm MacDonald Collection, pl. XCV, no. 260; one from the collection of Samuel C. Davis, included in the Exhibition of Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, 1970, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 37; and another in the O. C. S. Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, 1948, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 195.

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