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Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Ming chu qinghua ci [Early Ming blue- 12
and-white porcelain in the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2002, vol. 1, pls 87 and 88;
one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku, 2000 17
op.cit., pl. 16; one in the Shanghai Museum, in Lu Minghua, Shanghai Bowuguan
zangpin yanjiu daxi/Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collections : A Series of 1659 1660
Monographs. Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007,
pl. 3-9, and on the books’ dust jacket; and one in the Musée Guimet, Paris, in Ming Ceramics in the
Fujioka Ryoichi and Hasebe Gakuji, eds, Sekai tōji zenshū/Ceramic Art of the
World, vol. 14: Min/Ming Dynasty, Tokyo, 1976, col. pl. 13. British Museum 2001

A smaller moon ask with formal lotus scrolls from the Qing emperors’ 4 17
summer resort Bishu Shanzhuang at Chengde in Hebei province is illustrated
in Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on Chinese ceramics], vol. 12, John Ayers Chinese Ceramics
Shanghai, 2000, pl. 17. A similar ask with a peony scroll, with reduced neck,
engraved with the name of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (r.1658-1707) and a The Koger Collection 1995
date equivalent to 1659-60, is published in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics
in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 4:17, where the possibility of a slightly 51
later, Xuande (1426-1435), date for this design is evoked; another ask of this
pattern is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection, 1994 2010 4 1635
London, 1985, pl. 51 and Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
Collection, vol. 4, London, 1994-2010, no. 1635, and it was later sold in our Hong 2012 10 9 37
Kong rooms, 9th October 2012, lot 37.
3 20 Oppenheim
Of similar Yongle moon asks with scrolling lychee branches around the body Alfred Clark
one example is also in the British Museum from the Oppenheim collection, ibid.,
pl. 3:20; one in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, from the collections of 1995
Alfred Clark and Ataka Eiichi, was included in the Museum’s exhibition Imperial
Porcelain: Recent Discoveries of Jingdezhen Ware, Osaka, 1995, cat. no. 218; 218
and one in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
18th May 1982, lot 144, was included in the Museum’s exhibition Tōyō tōji meihin 1982 5 18 144
zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of masterpieces of Oriental ceramics], Tokyo, 1991,
cat. no. 70; and is illustrated in Sotheby’s: Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ⚛拚 1991
2003, pl. 208; a fourth was sold in our London rooms, 5th July 1977, lot 201.
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