A RARE CHINESE LATER-ENAMELLED WHITE GLAZED SAUCER DISH

£2,000 - £3,000

£69,300

A RARE CHINESE LATER-ENAMELLED WHITE GLAZED SAUCER DISH
SIX CHARACTER HONGZHI MARK AND THE PORCELAIN OF THE PERIOD 1488-1505

The glaze of bluish tint, the body enamelled in the famille verte palette with a fruiting grape vine growing from green rocks beside iron-red lingzhi to the underside and spreading over the interior in which nine squirrels play and small butterflies fly among tendrils and fruits, 21cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Dr Nariman Bamji (1909-78), and according to the family, purchased from Sotheby’s London in the late 1960s.

The script of the mark on a reconstructed dish held within the Imperial Kiln Museums at Jingdezhen is very similar and probably, although not definitively, written by the same hand as the present dish. It also exhibits a slightly recessed central base, a feature known on late 15th and early 16th century pieces but not seen on Qing wares.

明弘治白釉後加彩松鼠葡萄碟
《大明弘治年製》青花楷書款
來源：Brigadier George Noel Powell DL, (1926-2019)收藏，據其家人回憶此件拍品於1960年代從倫敦蘇富比購得。