A YELLOW-GLAZED DISH ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD

the rounded sides supported on a tapered foot, covered overall with a pale yellow glaze, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character mark within a double-circle

A Japanese Private Collection.

Ming Porcelain, Marchant, London, 2009, cat. no. 12.

This large dish is in very good condition with the exception of some minor and light glaze scratches. It should be noted that the yellow is of a richer egg-yolk colour than the catalogue illustration would suggest.
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This dish is notable for its large size and luminous yellow glaze. A closely related example was included in the exhibition Handbook of the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3^rd Collection, The Asia Society, New York, 1979, p. 79 (bottom right); another was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 24^th November 1981, lot 136, and 24^th November 1987, lot 42; and a third was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29^th May 2007, lot 1484. Dishes of slightly smaller size include one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 136; one from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, pl. 597; and another from the Hall Family collection, sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 16^th May 1977, lot 65, and again, 2^nd May 2000, lot 504.