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A YELLOW-GLAZED DISH The deep and rich yellow covering this dish is ׼͍ᅃ රཊᆵ
characteristic of imperial yellow wares of the ɽ׼͍ᅃϋႡ‘ಛ
ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD
Zhengde reign, achieved through a slight increase
with shallow rounded sides rising from a short in the amount of iron oxide to the iron-yellow Ը๕
tapered foot to a slightly everted rim, applied enamel. Zhengde mark and period dishes of this John Sparks Ltd dࡐ౱
overall with a semi-translucent yellow glaze of form and glaze are held in important museum and Sidney T Cook 1910 1964 ϗᔛdϤܝ࢕ૄ
rich egg-yolk tone, save for the base left white private collections worldwide; see for example ෂו
with a six-character mark in underglaze blue one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
within a double ring in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Diameter 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong
Kong, 1999, pl. 41; another from the Sir Percival
PROVENANCE David Collection and now in the British Museum,
John Sparks Ltd., London. London, published in Margaret Medley, Illustrated
Collection of Sidney T. Cook (1910-1964), and Catalogue of Ming and Ch’ing Monochrome in
thence by descent. the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art,
London, 1973, pl. 597; and a third from the Koger
$ 20,000-30,000 collection, included in John Ayers, Chinese
Ceramics. The Koger Collection, London, 1985,
pl. 69.

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