15TH CENTURY

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A MING BLUE AND WHITE STEM BOWL
15th century
The exterior of the deep, rounded bowl freely painted with a continuous lotus scroll bearing six blossoms, each positioned below a precious object, the interior with a central medallion of a stylised lotus pond, below a broad band of lingzhi scroll filling the well, all raised on a slightly spreading pedestal foot encircled at the base by a classic scroll, firing flaw to foot rim
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, box

Exhibited

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9 - November 8, 1992, no. 8.

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Lot Essay

Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995, lot 99.

The Xuande prototypes for the design on this stembowl can be seen in the lingzhi scroll and the precious objects supported in lotus scroll, both elements included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, pls. 77 and 70. The lingzhi scroll also appears on the exterior of a Xuande bowl in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 8, no. 220.

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