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Fine lobed dishes decorated in high-quality underglaze blue with this
combination of mixed floral scrolls, floral sprays, and lingzhi fungus
scroll around the rim were popular in the early 15th century and the
choice of flowers is consistent on most examples. In the central panel
these flowers were lotus, hibiscus, camellia, and gardenia encircling
a peony blossom. The sprays in the cavetto are lotus, morning glory,
hibiscus, pomegranate, chrysanthemum and peony. Each flower
appears twice in strict rotation.
Dishes with identically arranged decoration are in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, see an example illustrated in Pleasingly Pure and
Lustrous: Porcelains from the Yongle Reign (1403-1424) of the Ming
Dynasty, Taipei, 2017, pp. 70-71; and the British Museum, see J.
Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001,
p. 116, no. 3:35; eleven from the Ardebil shrine now housed in the Iran
Bastan Museum in Teheran recorded by J. Pope, Chinese Porcelains
from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 35, nos. 29.101-111.
Others are illustrated by A. Leith, Catalogue of Selected Objects of
Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen,
1959, no. 108; by J. Wirgin, Ming Porcelain in the Collection of the
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities: Hongwu to Chenghua, Stockholm,
1991, no. 13; one sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 April 2018, lot 3207.
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