A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'GARDENIA' DISH, HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)

A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'GARDENIA' DISH
HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)
The center is decorated with a gardenia spray bearing two blossoms, below sprays of pomegranate, lotus, grape and rose in the well, with a frieze of flower scroll on the exterior, all in shaded tones of underglaze blue and reserved on a soft lemon-yellow ground.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 October 1993, lot 62.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN