Two rare yellow-glazed saucer-dishes


Zhengde six-character marks and of the periodEach potted with a crisp flaring rim, standing on in-sloping feet, all under a vibrant lemon-yellow glaze, the inside of the foots reserved white. The largest 20.3cm (8 1/8in) diam.
|明正德 黃釉素盤 一組兩件青花「大明正德年製」楷書款Provenance: a European private collection and thence by descent來源： 歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今The deep and rich yellow covering this dish is characteristic of Imperial yellow wares of the Zhengde reign, achieved through a slight increase in the amount of iron oxide to the iron-yellow enamel. Zhengde mark and period dishes of this form and glaze are held in important museum and private collections worldwide; see for example one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.41; another yellow glazes dish from the Sir Percival David Collection and now in the British Museum, London, is illustrated by M.Medley, Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, pl.597; and a third is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl.69.Compare with a yellow-glazed dish, Zhengde mark and period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 March 2018, lot 517.