A GE-TYPE LOBED DISH MING DYNASTY |

the rounded sides rising from a gently tapered foot to a five-lobed rim, covered overall in a soft grey glaze suffused with a network of black crackles, the glaze stopping neatly at the footring

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th November 1985, lot 40.

There is an area of impact to one side of the dish, with a C shaped crack to the exterior and other associated glaze crackles. Some glaze firing imperfections.
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A similar dish from the R.F.A. Riesco and the Flint collections, was sold at Christie’s London, 28th February 1977, lot 123; a round dish, from the collection of W.W. Winkworth, was sold in our London rooms, 12th December 1972, lot 133; and another was sold in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 719.

For the prototype of this form and glaze, see several petal-lobed dishes of various sizes, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selection of Ge Ware, Beijing, 2017, pls 42-46 and 63.

Conpare also a Ming dynasty Xuande mark and period dish, of circular form, now preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2008, pl. 76.