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A LARGE RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY’ DISH
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

明永樂 青花纏枝牡丹紋大盤

The dish is fnely painted in bright sapphire-blue tones with two peony blooms growing from a curled
branch bearing leaves and buds, surrounded on the cavetto with seven peony blooms and on the everted
lipped rim with continuous scrolling sprays. The exterior is detailed with a further lotus meander, all within
double-line borders. The base is unglazed.

14æ in. (37.5 cm.) diam.

£50,000-80,000 $77,000-120,000
€69,000-110,000

PROVENANCE:

Formerly in the Christer Löfgren collection, Sweden.

Dishes of this pattern include one in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, 1986, no. 598; another in the Archaeological
Museum of Iran, Teheran, recorded by A. Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, 1956, pl. 32,
no. 29.68 ; another from the collection of Gustaf VI Adolf, H.M. The King of Sweden, was included in
the exhibition of Ming Blue and White, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1964, no.23, p.39
and is also illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd in The World’s Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, Museum
of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol.8, no.214; another dish of this exact same pattern is
illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume II, p. 47, no.660.

Very similar dishes but with diferent pattern on the rim are recorded such as the one from the Qing
Court Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 55; and the two dishes included in
the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated From the Site of the Ming
Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1989, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 63, fgs.
1 and 2.

來源: 瑞典私人藏家Christer Lofgren舊藏

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