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A LARGE RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL SCROLL’ DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1424)

明永樂 青花纏枝花卉紋大盤

The dish is painted in brilliant tones of deep cobalt blue characterised by ‘heaping and piling’ efect on
the interior with an interlacing vine bearing blossoms and buds including peony, camellia and mallow
surrounded by their respective leaves, below a composite foral scroll of eleven fowerheads to the cavetto
and a band of cresting waves encircling the rim. The exterior is similarly painted with a frieze of composite
foral scroll between double-line borders.

16º in. (41.2 cm.) diam.

£30,000-50,000 $46,000-76,000
€41,000-68,000

PROVENANCE:

Christies London, Le Grand Gout - A Private European Collection, 17 June 2009, lot 40.
From the Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013).

A dish of this type was included in the Chang Foundation exhibition Imperial Hongwu and Yongle
Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1996, no. 44. Other similar examples include one in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 37;
one exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y.
Chao Family Foundation, 1978, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 5; one illustrated by J. Ayers in The
Baur Collection, Geneva, 1969, vol. II, no. A140; and another included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White, 1994, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 38.

來源: 英國私人藏家弗朗西斯．戈爾丁（1944 -2013）珍藏；2009年6月17日
於倫敦佳士得歐洲私人珍藏Le Grand Gout專場拍賣， 拍品第40號

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