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Rare Cobalt Blue Glazed Dish Xuande Mark and Period
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| Its sides rising gently off of a deep foot to an everted rim, the exterior covered with a rich cobalt blue glaze, the interior glazed white, the base bearing a six character incised Xuande mark and of the period. 7 3/4 in.
Condition: Restoration as shown in the photographs Provenance: Acquired in 1989 from a Jersey City, New Jersey collection AS WITH ALL OTHER WORKS OF ART SOLD BY MEIPING LTD THE AGE, AUTHENTICITY AND CONDITION OF THIS RARE DISH IS UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED. Xuande dishes in cobalt blue were always rare and now impossible to locate in the market. An example with the identical incised mark was offered at Christies London, June 18, 2000, lot 190 with the notation that "Monochrome blue porcelains of the Xuande reign are very rare." Xuande dishes of this type have certain characteristics relative to the color of the biscuit, the bluish undertone to the glaze on the base after it was fired and the manner in which the foot rim and base often exposed portions of burnt clay. Further, the bases on Xuande dishes were often set deep causing the foot to appear wider than in later Ming and Qing periods. The manner in which the mark is written is identical to the way in which the third and fourth characters of the Xuande mark are expected to be written when the piece is of the period. See Liu Liang-yu, "Ming Official Wares", Aires Publishing Gemini Ltd, Taipei, 1991, p. 80,81, where the author comments "There are certain other special features about Hsuan-te [Xuande] reign mark to be noted. Firstly the right-hand side of the [fourth] character ...was written in Ming times ...without the single horizontal stroke in the middle. This was immediately spotted by experienced old collectors, for fakes dating from the Ch'ing dynasty onwards always incorporate this horizontal stroke", p. 80. See also, id. p. 72 for an example of an incised six character Xuande mark on a deep footed bowl identical to the mark on the dish offered here; and another example of a Xuande mark and period dish with a blood red glaze and an identical mark, "Chinese Ceramics, Ming Dynasty", Shanghai Museum Press, 1983, p. 486. In each case, as is so with the dish offered here, the horizontal line on the fourth character is missing as it should be for an authenticated Xuande mark and period porcelain. See Christies New York, December 2, 1993, lot 267 for an example of a saucer dish with a copper red glaze with an incised Xuande six character mark. |
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