A Group of Six Blue and White Dishes Ming Dynasty, 16th Century

comprising: a dish painted with geese by a lotus pond, a saucer decorated with a monkey and a deer, a saucer depicting a sage, an octagonal saucer with an egret standing amongst a lotus pond, and a pair of dishes painted with two deer in a landscape surrounded by ducks swimming at a pond

Collection of Dr Ip Yee (three).

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze Red, City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1975, cat. no. 54 (one of the pair).
South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1979, cat. no. 120 (dish with geese).
Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 15 (dish with geese).
From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. nos 66-68, 72-73 and 78.

From left to right as per catalogue image: Pair of 'deer' dishes: Please note that the two dishes are not quite a pair and differ slightly in their size and composition. One with a 9mm glaze inclusion to the rim; a glaze pull to well; speckled glaze inclusions to main design; small glaze flakes to underside of rim. The other in good general condition with firing imperfections and with a label reading 'Min Chiu Ex. Cat. No. 36' to base. 'Sage' saucer: a 3mm rim chip; short and faint firing crack to rim and glaze flake to rim. 'Geese' dish: numerous glaze flakes to rim and firing cracks to base. 'Egret' saucer: hairline star crack to base; minor glaze inclusions. 'Monkey and deer' dish: slightly warped; firing crack to base and glaze pulls above foot; other minor firing imperfections. Please note that for all items the under-glaze blue is a softer colour than as seen in catalogue image.
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