Ming yongle White glazed dark moment branch flowers wen ling mouth tray

• RMB 2645000
• HKD 2981962
• USD 396750
• EUR 290950

sotheby’s Hong Kong, October 29, 2001, no. 559. Published

the meiyintang China ceramics, Regina krahl, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 1628.
“A DEALER ‘S HAND – The Chinese Art World Through The Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi”, ace kerner, London, 2012, pp. 308, 327 chart.
this white glazed dish everywhere embodies the yongle sweet white porcelain of the unique characteristics, and the thin glaze applied based on, glazed smooth glittering and translucent, mouth edge slightly fetal bone, with hand wipe it with a sharp feeling, this kind of device characteristics unique to instruments, and then copied puts more round, no edges and corners. The glaze cutting edge tidy, glazing is not running. Dark carved decorative pattern, line is fluent should carefully examine or borrow the light perspective, can see the grain. Ray, embryo glaze to present pinkish red or pink, this are the significant characteristics of yongle craft device. Ming yongle, jingdezhen kiln man try to use more kaolin, and using potassium feldspar in the porcelain glaze flux, making tyres more see white delicate, avoid white porcelain glaze in the green at the same time, as the color of white sugar. Yongle blue and white, color glaze plate can be roughly divided into two categories, round mouth mouth and ling, ling mouth is more precious. And blue or white glaze, are common in a lotus lines to act the role ofing, this dish is dark moment peony, the outer wall is also an ornament, extremely rare. Similar yongle sweet white glazed dish, visible sotheby’s in London, on December 8, 1992 sold, no. 236, for the British Dave Sir Old Tibet. Another example of ling mouth, dark moment grape tray, Rockefeller family in the United States (John d. Rockfreller 3 nd) old Tibet, and description in the Treasures of Asian Art, New York, 1994, pp. 168. This dish in the late qing dynasty kangxi, called on it to add decorative painting enamel, visible Taipei Palace Museum collection, it serves to show love for such yongle emperor kangxi to ya.