Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Property from the Cunliffe Collection of Chinese Art
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Lot 37
A rare underglaze-blue yellow-ground 'gardenia' saucer dish Zhengde six-character mark and of the period
12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £230,500 inc. premium
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A rare underglaze-blue yellow-ground 'gardenia' saucer dish
Zhengde six-character mark and of the period
With shallow rounded sides, freely painted in shaded tones of cobalt blue reserved on a rich yellow ground, the interior with a central medallion depicting a single leafy branch bearing two five-petalled gardenia blooms and a bud emerging from the top, encircled on the cavetto by fruiting branches of pomegranate, grape, peach and a beribboned lotus bouquet, all between double line borders, the underside with a continuous scroll of blooming peonies between double lines at the rim and foot, the recessed base with a six-character reign mark within a double circle. 19.8cm (7 7/8in) diam.
With shallow rounded sides, freely painted in shaded tones of cobalt blue reserved on a rich yellow ground, the interior with a central medallion depicting a single leafy branch bearing two five-petalled gardenia blooms and a bud emerging from the top, encircled on the cavetto by fruiting branches of pomegranate, grape, peach and a beribboned lotus bouquet, all between double line borders, the underside with a continuous scroll of blooming peonies between double lines at the rim and foot, the recessed base with a six-character reign mark within a double circle. 19.8cm (7 7/8in) diam.
Footnotes
明正德 黃地青花折枝花果紋盤
青花「大明正德年製」楷書款
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Acquired from Peter Boode, London, 22 May 1947
The Cunliffe Collection, no.PM76, and thence by descent
Exhibited:
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1950-1956
來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵 (1899-1963)
於1947年7月18日購自倫敦古董商Peter Boode
Cunliffe收藏，藏品PM76號，並由後人保存迄今
展覽：
1950至1956年7月期間於劍橋菲茨威廉博物館展出
Dishes depicting gardenia designs in cobalt blue on a yellow ground were produced from the Xuande through to the Jiajing reigns. Examples dating to the Zhengde period, however, are very rare. Highly regarded for its auspicious symbolism underscoring wishes for honour and happiness, the gardenia is combined with peaches and grapes; both symbolic of longevity, lotus and pomegranate, conveying the wish for fertility; and peonies, symbolic for wealth and happiness.
A closely related dish is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, 2000, pl.23. Another is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 19.28.10; see also from the Percival David Collection of Chinese Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, New York, 1983, vol. 5, pl. 187; another was included in the exhibition, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1992, no.81; one is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics From The Meiyintang Collection, london, 1994, vol.2, no.681. A similar dish was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2209.
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