A VERY RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMEL-DECORATED BOWL

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A VERY RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMEL-DECORATED BOWL
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHING A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Finely potted with deep, rounded sides, the exterior is painted in underglaze-blue with two sinuous five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit amid cloud scrolls and flames against a brightly enamelled yellow-ground, with green-enamelled wave bands punctuated with yellow flowers around the rim and the slightly tapered foot
6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

M. Meyer Collection, no. 456.

Literature

Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984, p. 164, fig. 1.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our London Rooms, 5 April 1976, lot 40, and illustrated as the frontispiece.

The pair to this bowl, and the only other known example, is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 808, and was sold in these Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 612.

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