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AN FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE LOBED FOLIATE-RIM DISH, well painted in the centre with a single flower enclosed by five differing blooms including lotus, chrysanthemum, mallow, dianthus and camellia on slender interlaced stems, the deep cavetto encircled by twelve various sprays each wreathed by a circular stem with spiky leaves, the barbed everted rim with a band of crested waves, a frieze of twelve further blooms on the underside, the underglaze-blue of good bright tone with 'heaped and piling' highlighting the design, the base unglazed, Yongle

细节
AN FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE LOBED FOLIATE-RIM DISH, well painted in the centre with a single flower enclosed by five differing blooms including lotus, chrysanthemum, mallow, dianthus and camellia on slender interlaced stems, the deep cavetto encircled by twelve various sprays each wreathed by a circular stem with spiky leaves, the barbed everted rim with a band of crested waves, a frieze of twelve further blooms on the underside, the underglaze-blue of good bright tone with 'heaped and piling' highlighting the design, the base unglazed, Yongle
33cm. diam., box
来源
Rockefeller Family Collections, by tradition

拍品专文

Previously sold in London, 13 December 1988, lot 147

Similar examples are illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, volII, p.512, Fig.601, and p.513, Fig.602, with a floral scroll instead of the wave design on the rim, and in Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl.36, no.29.117; others are illustrated in the S. C. Ko, Tianminlou Collection, Catalogue, part I, no.8; Chinese Ceramics from the Collectin of Sir Harry and Lady Garner, Catalogue, pl.34; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, pl.753; Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Stockholm, no. 216; Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.XIV, pl.146; and the National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelains, 1982, Catalogue, no.8. Cf. also a very similar example illustrated in Mingdai Chunian Ciqi, p.103, no.38, clearly showing one of the main decorative motifs of the period