Page 59 - Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art II

Longquan celadon dishes of this very large size, shape and pattern are very bearing three bunches of grapes, but of smaller size (41 cm.) have been
rare. One of two in the Topkapi Saray Museum is illustrated by R. Krahl, published. One by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, vol. I, London, Freer Gallery of Art, 1956, pl. 39, and an excavated example illustrated in
1986, p. 231 and p. 302, no. 241. Another similar dish is illustrated in the Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang
catalogue of the Thirty-ffth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Foundation, Taipei, 1996, pp. 166-67, no. 51. The decorative bands on the
In Pursuit of Antiquities, 22 December 1995 - 18 February 1996, no. 105. interior and exterior walls of these blue and white dishes differ from those
on the celadon dishes.
The grape vine design on these dishes can also be found on blue and white
dishes of Yongle date (1403-1425). Two Yongle period examples of blue
and white dishes of this shape, decorated in the center with a grape vine

2195 57