Important Chinese Art

Important Chinese Art

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Important Chinese Art from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

A molded blue and white 'lotus' dish, Mark and period of Wanli | 明萬曆 青花花卉梵文蓮式盤 《大明萬歷年製》款

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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A molded blue and white 'lotus' dish

Mark and period of Wanli

明萬曆 青花花卉梵文蓮式盤 《大明萬歷年製》款


formed as a flowerhead with two radiating layers of sixteen petals surrounding a lança character at the center, the tips of the outer petals painted with trefoils and the inner petals with ruyi heads, the exterior painted with lança characters alternating with floral sprays above a tier of molded petals painted with fine striations and an inner band of painted stylized leaves, the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue, wood stand (2)


Diameter 7½ in., 19.1 cm

Marchant, London, 24th March 2000.


來源

馬錢特，倫敦，2000年3月24日

Similar dishes are housed in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi: Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 3-94; the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, vol. VI, Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 20; the Baur Collection, included in John Ayers, The Baur Collection: Ming Porcelains and Other Wares, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A 185; and the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls 11:101 and 11:102.