A fine yellow-ground and underglaze-blue 'gardenia' dish Mark and period of Hongzhi | 明弘治 黃地青花折枝槴子花果紋盤 《大明弘治年製》款

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th November 1988, lot 157.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26th October 1993, lot 59.

香港蘇富比1988年11月15日，編號157

香港蘇富比1993年10月26日，編號59

Cecile and Michel Beurdeley, La Ceramique Chinoise, Fribourg, 1974, col. pls 67 and 68.

Sotheby's Hong Kong – Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 158.

Cecile 及 Michel Beurdeley，《La Ceramique Chinoise》，弗萊堡，1974年，彩圖版67-68

《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版158

The present piece is especially fine for its brilliant and striking combination of the blue and yellow colours and for the bold but perfectly arranged design of flowers and fruit. For Xuande and Chenghua prototypes in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, nos. 4:43 and 6:16.

Hongzhi dishes of this design can be found in important museum and private collections; for example see two in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], vol. II, Tokyo, 1977, pls. 72 and 73, together with their blue-and-white counterparts, pls 70 and 71; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 231, together with a Chenghua example, pl. 230, and a Zhengde example, pl. 233. Compare also a dish in the Shanghai Museum included in the exhibition Chugoku rekidai toji ten [Chinese ceramics through the ages], Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo, 1984, cat. no. 80.

From Western museum collections, compare a similar dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 16; one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, op.cit., vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 226, from the Kempe Collection; another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1674, and sold in these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 57; and a fourth example from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, included in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1966, cat. no. A740. The companion dish of the Percival David Foundation was sold in our London rooms, 15th October 1968, lot 108, and again in these rooms, 4th April 2017, lot 2, from the collection of Maureen Pilkington.

A similar dish from the T.Y. Chao collection was sold in these rooms, 31st October 1995, lot 387; and another from the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 22.

此盤青花發色亮麗，黃地瑩亮嬌嫩，繪工細膩流暢。其宣德、成化原型，可參考倫敦大英博物館藏例，見霍吉淑，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，編號4:43及6:16。 

博物館及私人藏家都有見弘治黃地青花梔子花盤藏例。台北故宮博物院藏兩件，見《明瓷名品図録》，卷II，東京， 1977年，圖版72及73，另有青花梔子花盤，圖版70及71。一件藏北京故宮博物院，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅 （中）》 ，上海，2000 年，圖231；另有成化例，圖版230及正德例，圖版233。一例為上海博物館館藏，曾展於《中国歴代陶磁展》，西武美術館，東京，1984年，編號80。

在西方博物館收藏中，美國大都會藝術博物館藏一件，見《東洋陶磁大觀》，卷2，東京，1982年，彩圖版16。一件藏為瑞典斯德哥爾摩東亞博物館所藏，同前註，卷8，東京，1982，圖版226，源自卡爾肯普（Carl Kempe）收藏。另見康蕊君著《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷4，編號1674，2011年4月7日於香港蘇富比拍賣，編號57。第四件為大維德爵士收藏，現藏倫敦大英博物館，見 Margaret Medley，《Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares》，倫敦，1966年，編號A740。與大維德爵士收藏本為一對的一件1968年10月15日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，編號108，後轉入茉琳琵金頓珍藏，2017年4月4日在香港蘇富比易手，編號2。

趙從衍收藏有一相近作例，1995年10月31日於香港蘇富比拍賣，編號387。另一件源自東京戶栗美術館，2004年6月9日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，編號22。