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1245 (another view)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

1245 The design seen on the current dish draws inspiration from 15th century blue
and white wares. Due to impurities in the cobalt used to create blue pigment
A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ DISH in the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644), underglaze blue decoration included
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE blackish specks, known as ‘heaping and piling’. By the 18th century, potters
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) at the imperial kilns were able to control the tone of blue. The heaping and
piling efect was hence imitated using a brush to add small darker stipples to
清雍正 仿明青花纏枝蓮紋盤 the decoration. The current dish is a fne example of the 18th century pieces
that served as a tribute to the pioneering imperial blue and white wares of
The dish is painted in the ffteenth century style in varying vibrant tones of the Yongle (1403-1424) and Xuande (1426-1435) periods.
cobalt blue imitating the ‘heaping and piling’ efect with a central lotus bloom
amongst scrolling foliage encircled by a band of the fowers of the four seasons Compare the foral decoration on the current dish to a Ming-style blue and
at the rim. The reverse is painted with further delicate lotus scrolls encircling white bottle vase of Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795) which sold at
the foot. Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3235.

5√ in. (14.9 cm.) diam., box

£20,000-30,000 $31,000-45,000
€28,000-41,000

PROVENANCE: A blue and white vase of Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735), decorated
with comparable meandering fowers of the four seasons, is in the Collection
Private Swedish collection, acquired in England in the 1950s. of the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace
With Antik West, Gothenburg, 26 April 2010. Museum: Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, pp.
66-67, pl. 1.
來源:瑞典私人珍藏, 於1950年代購自英格蘭; 2010年4月
26日購自Gothenburg Antik West

歐洲私人珍藏

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