A RARE EARLY MING SMALL BARBED CELADON DISH

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A RARE EARLY MING SMALL BARBED CELADON DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The flared and angled sides rising to the everted, barbed rim, incised on the exterior with a band of petal lappets below a band of foliate scroll and to the interior with a leafy floral meander, all under a glaze of sea-green colour thinning on the edges--3 1/4in. (8.5cm.) diam.

展览

Royal Academy of Arts, London, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-36, no. 1022

拍品专文

Compare with the similar excavated dish included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, 1989, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 67.

Other dishes of this size and pattern are in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in the Malcolm MacDonald Collection Catalogue, pl. XXXVII, no. 114; in the Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no. 160 and in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue, no. 101. Two others from the Cunliffe Collection and the Clark Collection were included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, 1947, Catalogue, no. 2 and 5