A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCER-DISH
A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCER-DISH

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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

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

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Lot Essay

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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