AN IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED DISHZhengde six-character mark and of the periodFinely potted with shallow rounded sides, rising from a slightly tapering foot to a gently everted rim, covered overall in an even soft egg-yolk yellow glaze.21cm (8 1/4in) diam.Provenance: 明正德 嬌黃釉盤青花「大明正德年製」楷書款Provenance:An important Asian private collection來源:重要亞洲私人收藏Yellow-glazed porcelains were believed to have been made solely for the use of the Imperial Court during the Ming dynasty, among which pieces produced during the Hongzhi and Zhengde reigns were of the finest quality in terms of glazing and colour. See a similar Zhengde reign-marked yellow-glazed dish from the Qing Court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated inTheplete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.46, pl.41; and another yellow dish illustrated by R.Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.IV, London, 2010, pl.1676. For two other dishes from the collection of the British Museum, see Jessica Harrison-Hall,Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.205, pls.8:27 and 8:28.盤撇口，弧壁，圈足，圈足外壁向內漸收。通體以澆釉技法施黃釉，釉色肥厚，釉面純淨。圈足內施白釉，書青花雙圈「大明正德年製」六字雙行楷書款。黃釉瓷的生產於明清兩代都受宮廷嚴格控制，而明代黃釉瓷又以弘治正德燒製為佳。參看北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏一件明正德黃釉瓷盤，楊靜榮編，《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：顏色釉》，香港，1999，頁46，圖41，另見玫茵堂藏一件類似黃釉盤，Regina Krahl著，《Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection》，第四卷，倫敦，2010年，圖1676，另見英國大英博物館藏兩件明正德黃釉盤，Jessica Harrison-Hall，《Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年， 頁204，圖版8:27及8:28。