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Lot Essay
The dish has a foliate everted rim and rests on a short, tapered foot. The centre is decorated with a mixed floral scroll with five blooms, with peony in the centre and lotus, hibiscus, camellia and gardenia around, the sides are further decorated with floral sprays. The interior rim is painted with a lingzhi scroll and left plain on the outside.
Dishes with similarly arranged decoration are found in institutions worldwide, as well as in private collections, including one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: guci006109, and illustrated in Pleasingly Pure and Lustrous: Porcelains from the Yongle Reign (1403-1424) of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2017, pp.70-71(fig. 1); one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, decorated with a band of waves to the rim, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p.62, no.59 (fig. 2); one in the British Museum, see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 116, no. 3:35; one from the collection of W.T. Chan, published in The Radiant Ming-through the Min Chiu Society Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, p.87, no.63; and one from the Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, pp.74-75, no.23, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 April 2019, lot 2; and a closely related dish from the Kwong Yee Che Tong collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2024, lot 2806.
Dishes with similarly arranged decoration are found in institutions worldwide, as well as in private collections, including one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: guci006109, and illustrated in Pleasingly Pure and Lustrous: Porcelains from the Yongle Reign (1403-1424) of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2017, pp.70-71(fig. 1); one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, decorated with a band of waves to the rim, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p.62, no.59 (fig. 2); one in the British Museum, see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 116, no. 3:35; one from the collection of W.T. Chan, published in The Radiant Ming-through the Min Chiu Society Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, p.87, no.63; and one from the Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, pp.74-75, no.23, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 April 2019, lot 2; and a closely related dish from the Kwong Yee Che Tong collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2024, lot 2806.