A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

Lot 1044
25.03.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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$ 200 000
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ID 718552
Lot 1044 | A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

The central medallion is finely decorated with peonies, all borne on scrolling interlocking stems, beneath the cavetto which is decorated with twelve floral sprays. The everted rim is encircled by a band of wind-tossed waves, and the exterior has a further band of composite foliate scroll, all in bright, inky tones of underglaze blue enhanced by 'heaping and piling.'

15 7⁄8 in. (40.3 cm.) diam.







Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 12 May 1976, lot 94.

Dr. Ip Yee (19221-1984) Collection, Hong Kong.

Property of the Estate of Dr. Ip Yee; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 181.

Christie's New York, 20 March 1997, lot 145.
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