A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH
A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

Well painted on the central medallion in vivid rich tones with three bunches of grapes on a leafy vine with numerous spiral tendrils, surrounded on the cavetto by a composite floral scroll comprising lotus, morning glory, peony, chrysanthemum, camellia and other flowers, repeated on the exterior, the slightly sloping everted rim with a border of breaking waves, the unglazed base burnt orange in the firing 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Manno Art Museum, no. 437.
Literature
Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 109.

Lot Essay

Cf. similar examples of this dish, included in the Shanghai Museum Exhibition of Blue and White Wares, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 24; one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, pl. 82; one illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, pl. 147; one published by J. Pope, Chinese Ceramics in the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 38, no. 29.52; one included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, 1949, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 41; and another sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1993, lot 711.

Other examples of varying sizes have also been recorded in collections around the world, such as those illustrated in the Matsuoka Museum Catalogue, col. pl. a54; in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 15th Anniversary Catalogue, pl. 781; included in the 1957 O. C. S. Exhibition of the Arts of the Ming Dynasty, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 35; in the 1964 London O. C. S. Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 40; in the 1964 Stockholm Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15; and from the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain, 1978, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 3.

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