THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE ANHUA-DECORATED CONICAL BOWL
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted to the exterior in characteristic dark blue tone with a chrysanthemum scroll comprising six flower-heads on a leafy stem with six smaller blooms issuing from secondary stems above a band of overlapping upright petals, all between single line borders at the rim and foot, the interior with a finely detailed peony scroll in anhua (invisible decoration) between a pair of double lines, the central medallion comprising a six-petal flower-head--8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) diam.

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Similar marked bowls include the example illustrated in the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation Hong Kong Museum of Art Exhibition, 1978, Catalogue, no. 9, formerly in the Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark Collection and exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1953-54, Catalogue, no. 78; also compare with examples included in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 55, from the Shanghai Museum; Mingdai Taoci Daquan (Comprehensive list of Ming Dynasty Porcelain), pl. 164 (two views); Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, pl. 149, and also p. 312, no. 48 (black and white detail); Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. ??? pl. 66; Percival David Foundation, illustrated pl. XVIII; Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 29B, for the example from the Brankston Collection; A.D. Brankston, Early Ming Wares from Chingtechen, pl. 11; Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection,Catalogue, pl. 89; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 777.

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