A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, LIANZI WAN

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, LIANZI WAN
YONGLE

The deep sides rising from a point at the centre of the base, finely painted in rich blue tones with a band of elongated lotus petals below key-pattern at the rim on the exterior, and a central spray of fruiting loquat within double circles, below a leafy scroll alternating with camellias and chrysanthemum flower-head, and a band of breaking waves at the rim of the interior, the cobalt-blue painting with attractive 'heaping and piling'
8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Major L.F. Hay, sold in London, 16 June 1939, lot 93.
Mr. and Mrs. R.H.R. Palmer, no. 525, sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 565.

Exhibited

Somerville College, Oxford, 1944, no. 105.

Lot Essay

A closely related example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, col. pl. 44. Cf. another in the Freer Gallery, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 9, pl. 93. The Percival David Foundation also has a comparable bowl, Catalogue, Section 3, no. B637; Feng Xianming illustrates a similar bowl in the Beijing Palace Museum, Orientations, November 1987, p. 62, fig. 13, which compares interestingly with another lianzi bowl that was clearly exported at an early date to the Middle East, illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 47, 29.326. Compare also to the bowl from the collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, fig. 670.

(US$100,000-150,000)

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