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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DON B. LICHTY, HONOLULU
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH 檀香山%0/ # -*$)5:舊藏
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
明永樂ǎ青花➁枝蓮紋૯盤
The central medallion is finely decorated with peonies, all borne on scrolling
interlocking stems, beneath the cavetto which is decorated with twelve floral Ϝ源
sprays. The everted rim is encircled by a band of wind-tossed waves, and the 香港蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
exterior has a further band of composite foliate scroll, all in bright, inky tones of 葉義醫生 ě
珍藏
香港
underglaze blue enhanced by 'heaping and piling.'
葉義醫生舊藏
香港蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
15w in. (40.3 cm.) diam.
紐☼ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號
$200,000-300,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 12 May 1976, lot 94.
Dr. Ip Yee (19221-1984) Collection, Hong Kong.
Property of the Estate of Dr. Ip Yee; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1984,
lot 181.
Christie's New York, 20 March 1997, lot 145.
Large, luxurious dishes of this type were very popular exports to India and
the Middle East, as evinced by the large numbers of examples published in
collections in Istanbul and Tehran, and the large number of copies made in
earthenware. For examples of various designs found on these dishes see
R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 2,
London, 1985, pp. 512-514, nos. 599-607 and J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains
from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 34, no. 29:88, for a dish of
similar size and design to the present dish.
Yongle blue and white dishes of this type, however, were also traditionally
prized by Chinese collectors. A dish of this design was excavated at
Dongmentou, Zhushan, in 1994 and included in the Chang Foundation
exhibition Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen,
Taipei, 1996, p. 153, no. 44. Other similar examples include one in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of
Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 37; one exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of
Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family
Foundation, 1978, no. 5; one illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection,
Geneva, 1969, vol. II, no. A140; and another included in An Exhibition of Blue-
Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949,
p. 36, no. 38 (lent by C.T. Loo). Comparable Yongle dishes sold at auction
include one from the Henry M. Knight Collection sold at Bonhams Hong
Kong, 4 June 2019, lot 27, and another sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 April
2012, lot 2152.

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