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PROPERTY FROM THE CADLE FAMILY COLLECTION PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
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A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED DEEP BOWL, A RARE WHITE-GLAZED BISCUIT-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
LIANZIWAN HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1424) DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)
The bowl is fnely potted with deep rounded sides fnely incised on the exterior Finely potted with shallow, rounded sides, the dish is incised on the interior
with a band of leafy scroll alternately bearing chrysanthemum and camellia with a dragon leaping amidst clouds, and on the exterior with two further
blossoms below a key-fret border at the rim. The center of the interior is dragons striding on a ground of waves crashing on rocks, all reserved in
decorated with a chrysanthemum sprig below a band of lotus petals that rise the biscuit that has fred to a very pale russet color and surrounded by the
towards a frieze of stylized waves at the rim. The bowl is covered overall with a unctuous glaze of pale milky-blue tone.
glaze of subtle bluish tone. 8√ in. (22.5 cm.) diam.
8¿ in. (20.6 cm.) diam.
$50,000-70,000
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1616.
Sotheby’s New York, 4 December 1985, lot 229.
Dishes of this type with Hongzhi mark, but of smaller size, include one (19.8
EXHIBITED cm.) in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics,
Sydney, Australia, Chinese Porcelains of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Art London, 2001, pp. 177-78, no. 7:3, where the author, p. 178, notes that “large
Gallery of New South Wales, 1977, no. 11. numbers of these dishes were commissioned by the imperial court during the
Hongzhi reign.” Another smaller dish (16.2 cm.) in The Metropolitan Museum
For another Yongle bowl of this shape and size, with related anhua of Art, New York, is illustrated by Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of
decoration, see the example from the Falk Collection sold at Christie’s Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., pl. 155; and one (18.5 cm.) in the
New York, 20 September 2001, lot 132. On the Falk bowl, the lotus petals National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated in Porcelain of The National
are incised on the exterior, while a similar fower scroll bearing alternating Palace Museum: Monochrome Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book, 2, Hong Kong,
chrysanthemum and peony blossoms is on the interior between a 1968, pp. 110-11, pls. 2-2c.
chrysanthemum sprig in the center and a band of waves at the rim.
明弘治 白地素胎龍紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
明永樂 甜白釉暗花纏枝花卉紋蓮子盌

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