Sep 16, 2003 10:00 EST
F. Gordon Morrill Collection/Chinese & Chinese Export Porcelain
81
BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 'BARBED' DISH
Yongle Period (1403-1425)
Diameter 13 3/16 inches (33.5 cm)
The cavetto is filled with six flowerheads and running foliage that are surrounded by twelve stylized floral sprays painted on the deep wall, all within a flat rim painted with a wave design. The reverse is painted with twelve simplified and stylized floral sprays.
PROVENANCE:
Spink & Son, London, June 1967
SIMILAR EXAMPLES:
Percival David Collection, no. A 601, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Catalogue, Section 3, 1963, pl. VIII
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pl. 23
Mayuyama, Seventy Years, I, no. 753
John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 35, no. 29.117 (with a floral border)
CONDITION:
Good state
Sold for $168,750
Estimated at $40,000 - $60,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 'BARBED' DISH
Yongle Period (1403-1425)
Diameter 13 3/16 inches (33.5 cm)
The cavetto is filled with six flowerheads and running foliage that are surrounded by twelve stylized floral sprays painted on the deep wall, all within a flat rim painted with a wave design. The reverse is painted with twelve simplified and stylized floral sprays.
PROVENANCE:
Spink & Son, London, June 1967
SIMILAR EXAMPLES:
Percival David Collection, no. A 601, illustrated by Margaret Medley, Catalogue, Section 3, 1963, pl. VIII
National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pl. 23
Mayuyama, Seventy Years, I, no. 753
John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 35, no. 29.117 (with a floral border)
CONDITION:
Good state
Auction: F. Gordon Morrill Collection/Chinese & Chinese Export Porcelain, Sep 16, 2003
