Lot 3973
3973
A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE FRUIT BOWL
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE FRUIT BOWL

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE FRUIT BOWL
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The shallow bowl with rounded sides is delicately painted to the exterior in vibrant tones of blue with concentrated areas of 'heaping and piling', to depict a composite floral scroll including lotus, chrysanthemum, rose, tree peony, pomegranate, hibiscus, camellia, and herbaceous peony, all above a band of lotus panels and a classic scroll encircling the foot.
11 1/2 in. (28.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Hans Olstrum, Stockholm (according to label)
Sold at Sotheby's London, 6 December 1994, lot 150
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2545

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Lot Essay

A very similar example was illustrated in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, exhibition Catalogue, Chinese Porcelain, S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, vol. 1, col. pl. 26; another from the Eugene Bernat Collection was included in the exhibition catalogue, Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia, 1949, no. 62; and a third example is illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl. 26 and sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 May 1994, lot 632. Compare also a similar bowl with a Xuande mark, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 692.

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