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Otherwise dishes decorated in this technique are known in two well-known 1 111
designs that later became very popular painted in blue against a yellow
ground, both smaller: one with a owering pomegranate branch, the other with Sedgwick Rockefeller
gardenia in the center, both surrounded by four fruiting branches. Six dishes
(approximately 29 cm) are known of the pomegranate design: in the National Denise Patry Leidy Treasures of Asian
Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the exhibition Mingdai Xuande guanyao
jinghua tezhan tulu/Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Art The Asia Society s Mr and Mrs John D
Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998,
cat. no.198; in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Rockefeller 3rd Collection 1994
Bowuyuan cang gu taoci ciliao xuancui [Selection of ancient ceramic material
from the Palace Museum], Beijing 2005, vol. 1, pl. 111; in the Asia Society, New 178 1954
York, from the Sedgwick and Rockefeller collections, illustrated in Denise Patry
Leidy, Treasures of Asian Art: The Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 11 9 72 1968 7 2
3rd Collection, New York, 1994, pl. 178, and sold twice in our London rooms, 9th
November 1954, lot 72, and 2nd July 1968, lot 122; and another was sold in our 122 2007 4 8
Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2007, lot 839, and is illustrated in Julian Thompson,
The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, cat. no. 13. 839
A second dish of this design from the Sedgwick collection, also attributed to
the Xuande period, but unmarked, is illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming 2009 13 Sedgwick
Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no. 4:41; and a deliberately
destroyed example recovered from the waste heaps of the Ming imperial kiln the British Museum Ming Ceramics in
site at Jingdezhen, was exhibited at the Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, op.cit., 4 41 2001
cat. no. 84.
84 1998