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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 士紳藏品
Lots 111 - 118

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A RARE YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL TWO RARE YELLOW-GLAZED SAUCER-DISHES
Zhengde six-character mark and of the period Zhengde six-character marks and of the period
The deep rounded sides rising from an in-sloping foot to a gently Each potted with a crisp flaring rim, standing on in-sloping feet, all under
everted rim, applied overall with a rich lemon-yellow glaze of deep a vibrant lemon-yellow glaze, the inside of the foots reserved white.
even tone, the unglazed footring burnt orange around the inner edge, The largest 20.3cm (8 1/8in) diam.
the white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign
mark within a double ring. £30,000 - 40,000
17.5cm (6 7/8in) diam. CNY270,000 - 360,000

£7,000 - 10,000 明正德 黃釉素盤 一組兩件
CNY63,000 - 91,000 青花「大明正德年製」楷書款

明正德 黃釉素盌 Provenance: a European private collection and thence by descent
青花「大明正德年製」楷書款
來源： 歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
Provenance: a European private collection and thence by descent
The deep and rich yellow covering this dish is characteristic of Imperial
來源： 歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今 yellow wares of the Zhengde reign, achieved through a slight increase
in the amount of iron oxide to the iron-yellow enamel. Zhengde mark
A similar bowl is illustrated by J.Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in and period dishes of this form and glaze are held in important museum
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl.155. A bowl of and private collections worldwide; see for example one illustrated
this type, but of slightly smaller size, formerly in the collection of in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Lord Cunliffe, is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.41; another yellow
Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, London, 1994, pl.1418. glazes dish from the Sir Percival David Collection and now in the British
Museum, London, is illustrated by M.Medley, Catalogue of Ming and
Ch’ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art,
London, 1973, pl.597; and a third is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese
Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl.69.

Compare with a yellow-glazed dish, Zhengde mark and period, which
was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 21 March 2018, lot 517.

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