Lot 387
387
A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY

Details
A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY

Well potted with deep, rounded sides rising from a cylindrical foot, painted in vibrant tones of underglaze blue on the exterior with a continuous river landscape scene incorporating pagodas, sampans and thatched huts amidst mountain peaks and dense foliage, above a band of stylized rockwork and breaking waves and a band of cursive scroll encircling the foot, the interior decorated with a landscape roundel and similarly decorated band below the rim
14¼in. (36.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

This bowl is stylistically similar to a group of bowls in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, which have been dated to the third quarter of the 16th century, illustrated by Regina Krahl in the Catalogue, vol. II, New York, 1986, pp. 676 and 676, nos. 1081-1086