明弘治 白地素胎劃三龍盤 《大明弘治年製》款

with shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot, applied overall with a rich transparent glaze slightly tinged to bluish-green, save for a five-clawed dragon vigorously incised on the interior writhing among clouds within a central medallion, its sinuous scaly body and three clouds reserved on the biscuit and fired to a pale orange, the claws and tongues of flame issuing from the dragon's flank incised beneath the glaze, the underside decorated with two further dragons similarly incised and reserved on the biscuit on a ground of lightly incised waves breaking on low pointed rocks, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within double circles

倫敦蘇富比1990年6月12日，編號235

The dish is overall in very good condition. There is a tiny body line of approx. 3mm. on the rim and surface scratches to the interior, predominantly around the cavetto.
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A closely related dish was sold in these rooms, 25^th April 2004, lot 275. Dishes of this type, but of slightly smaller size, include one in the National Palace Museum, published in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Monochrome Ware of the Ming Dynasty, bk. II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 2; another in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, pl. 7:3; and a third in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, included in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 155. Two further related dishes were sold in these rooms, the first from the Edward T. Chow collection, 19^th May 1981, and again, 17^th May 1988, lot 10, and the second, 8^th April 2013, lot 3178.