A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'KLAPMUTS' BOWL, painted in a deep cobalt blue, the centre with a large vase of flowers supported on pierced rockwork within a star-shaped border, the well with four lobed oval panels enclosing Buddhist emblems or flower sprays, around the rim cranes in flight and geometrical motifs centred by two large taotie masks, the exterior with panels of peach, underneath the rim a bird perched on trailing branches (small rim chips and frits), Wanli

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'KLAPMUTS' BOWL, painted in a deep cobalt blue, the centre with a large vase of flowers supported on pierced rockwork within a star-shaped border, the well with four lobed oval panels enclosing Buddhist emblems or flower sprays, around the rim cranes in flight and geometrical motifs centred by two large taotie masks, the exterior with panels of peach, underneath the rim a bird perched on trailing branches (small rim chips and frits), Wanli
37cm. diam.

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