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Lot Essay
This large dish is painted in rich tone of cobalt blue. The centre is painted with a lotus pond, the sides are further decorated with lotus scrolls. The magnificent dish is impressive due to its size, exceeding 40 cm in diameter, which adds to the complexity of its overall design. Large Yuan dishes of this kind would have been very costly to produce, and only small quantities were made for the upper class.
Compare with a larger Yuan dynasty example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p.12, no.10 (fig.1), painted with mandarin ducks and lotus pond design; and one from the Tianminlou Collection, see Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Taipei, 1992, pp.40-41, no.3; and a smaller one in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, published in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, p.179, no.755; and a 14th century barbed-rim dish painted with lotus pond, see John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebl Shrine, Washington, 1956, no.22, collection number:29.123.
Compare with a larger Yuan dynasty example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p.12, no.10 (fig.1), painted with mandarin ducks and lotus pond design; and one from the Tianminlou Collection, see Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Taipei, 1992, pp.40-41, no.3; and a smaller one in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, published in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, p.179, no.755; and a 14th century barbed-rim dish painted with lotus pond, see John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebl Shrine, Washington, 1956, no.22, collection number:29.123.