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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL’ 明正德 青花花卉紋山形筆擱 《大明正德年 A GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ DISH, MARK 明弘治 白地暗刻海水綠彩龍紋盤
MOUNTAIN-FORM BRUSHREST, MARK AND 製》款 AND PERIOD OF HONGZHI 《大明弘治年製》款
PERIOD OF ZHENGDE the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within

the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, Japanese wood box (3) 來源：
a double square Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm
Length 8⅝ in., 21.9 cm 抱一齋收藏
PROVENANCE 香港蘇富比2014年4月8日，編號3029
Ascending the throne at age 14, the Zhengde Emperor The Baoyizhai Collection.
was fascinated by foreign cultures and invited many Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th April 2014, lot 3029.
Muslims to serve as his trusted advisors, eunuchs and
envoys at his court. Works of art, such as the present, are Four Hongzhi mark and period dishes of this design and size,
testament to the Emperor’s full curiosity and embrace of in the Palace Museum, Beijing, are illustrated in Imperial
the culture. Modeled in the form of a mountain, the brush Porcelains from the Reign of Hongzhi and Zhengde in the
rest is intricately painted with floral scrolls with an Arabic Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2017, pls 53 and 56-58, together
inscription to the center of each side. with two slightly larger dishes, pls 54 and 55; a dish from
the collection of Sir John Addis, now in the British Museum,
The present lot belongs to a small group of remarkable London, is illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics
brush rests that are in important museum and private in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 7:17; and another
collections worldwide. See a closely related brush rest, in in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated in Regina Krahl,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.
18.56.14), and illustrated Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook 2, London, 1994, pl. 693. Further examples were sold at
of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 163; another is in auction, for example, a dish from the collections of Mr and
the British Museum, London (accession no. Franks.147.b), Mrs R.H.R. Palmer and Roger Pilkington, sold in our London
and illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late rooms in 1962, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 6th April
Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2016, lot 30; and another from a Japanese Private Collection,
2001, pl. 8:3. For examples sold at auction, see one from sold in these rooms, 11th September 2019, lot 519.
the Frederick M. Mayer Collection, sold in our Hong Kong
rooms, 23rd May 1978, lot 38; another sold in these rooms, $ 30,000-50,000
6 November 1981, lot 263, later entering the Greenwald
Collection and sold again at Christie’s Hong Kong,
1st December 2010.
⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

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