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A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'GARDENIA' DISH
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)
The dish is decorated in the center with a blossoming gardenia branch
surrounded by four flowering or fruiting sprays of ribbon-tied lotus, peach, grape
and pomegranate, with a band of peony scroll on the exterior below the everted
rim, all within double-line borders and painted in gradated washes of cobalt blue
reserved against a pale lemon-yellow enamel ground.
10 in. (25.6 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box.

$50,000-70,000
Imperial porcelains in the Zhengde period were often inspired by the decoration
of earlier prototypes. The pattern of this dish was introduced in the Xuande
period and continued to be made throughout the sixteenth century. Compare
a dish of the same size and pattern illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming
Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 204, no. 8:23.
Other examples of slightly smaller size, some with slight variances in the
positioning of the ribbon-tied lotus and grape, are in the Percival David
Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections,
vol. 6, pl. 37; the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's
Great Collections, vol. 5, pl. 187; the Koger Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in
the exhibition Catalogue, p. 96, no. 72; the Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by
S. Valenstein, Ming Porcelains, and another in the Matsuoka Museum of Art,
included in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1984, Catalogue no. 63.
(reverse)

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