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Eloge de l'Art par Alain Truong
10 mai 2011

A fine and rare blue and white 'dragon' saucer dish. ark and period of Zhengde

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A fine and rare blue and white 'dragon' saucer dish. ark and period of Zhengde. Photo Sotheby's

painted in varying pale tones of underglaze-blue, the exterior with a pair of scaly five-clawed dragons each in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' and divided by cloud scrolls, the interior with three trailing cloud motifs within a double line medallion and a classic scroll border at the rim, the base inscribed with the six-character mark in underglaze-blue; 22.4 cm., 8 13/16 in. Estimate 1,000,000—1,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 7,460,000 HKD

PROVENANCE: The J.M. Hu Family Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 4th June 1985, lot 5.

NOTE: A Zhengde dish of similar design was illustrated in the Blue and White Wares of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Book IV, pl. 11.

For the inspiration of this form and design, see the prototype from the reigns of Hongwu and Yongle, illustrated together in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Beijing, 1993, figs. 6 and 7; and another Yongle dish was sold in these rooms, 5th November 1997, lot 1366. Other dishes of this type, but from the reigns of Xuande, are illustrated in Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 15 and sold in these rooms, 1st November 1999, lot 313; and another two examples, one with a straight instead of a flared rim, in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, pls. 4:34,35.

See another related Xuande dish with the same design, but with two phoenix on the exterior, in the National Palace Museum, Tapei, illustrated in the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-Te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 191. A Hongzhi example of this dish is illustrated in Sir Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White, 1973, pl. 39C and D.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, 08 Apr 11, Hong Kong www.sothebys.com

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