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!"# PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
PRIVATE COLLECTION
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE BARBED DISH
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

the ! at dish painted in inky-washes of vivid cobalt-blue with scattered
! ecks of silvery ‘heaping and piling’, the interior with a central medallion
enclosing two peaches borne on a leafy stem, framed by a collar of
radiating petals and a wreath of scrolling peony, the well divided into
eight ! uted panels, each painted with a single lotus spray, set below a
sharply everted barbed rim with a band of crested waves, the underside
with eight ! oral sprays including peony, chrysanthemum, peach and
lotus enclosed within single line borders, the shallow glazed base burnt
to a peachy brown
Diameter 7⅞ in., 20 cm
PROVENANCE
English Private Collection.
Marchant Ltd., London.

EXHIBITED
Ming Porcelain, Marchant Ltd., London, 2009, cat. no. 5 and illustrated
on the catalogue cover.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, from 2013 (on
loan).
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$ 500,000-700,000