AN EARLY MING WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEM BOWL

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AN EARLY MING WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEM BOWL
15TH CENTURY, PROBABLY INTERREGNUM PERIOD

The deep bowl with everted rim raised on a slightly flared pedestal foot, with a ribbon-like cloud incised in the center below anhua-decoration of two sinuous dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds, all under a clear glaze of even tone--5½in. (14cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar anhua-decorated stem bowl in the Nelson-Atkins Museum is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, pl. 49, and another, slightly smaller, is illustrated by Liu, Ming Official Wares, Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Taiwan, 1991, p. 35 (bottom right)