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SECOND HALF 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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TWO BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
SECOND HALF 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The smaller bowl has deep sides decorated with figures in a continuous river landscape, and the interior has a related roundel in the center below a band of egrets in a lotus pond at the rim. There is a Jiajing six-character mark on the base. The larger bowl is decorated around the sides with a frieze of geese amidst or in flight above a lotus pond and millet, and the bottom of the interior has a roundel of a fruiting peach branch. There is an apocryphal Chenghua mark on the base. Both bowls have a metal mount on the mouth rim.
5 and 8 7/8 in. (12.2 and 22.5 cm.) diam. (2)
SECOND HALF 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The smaller bowl has deep sides decorated with figures in a continuous river landscape, and the interior has a related roundel in the center below a band of egrets in a lotus pond at the rim. There is a Jiajing six-character mark on the base. The larger bowl is decorated around the sides with a frieze of geese amidst or in flight above a lotus pond and millet, and the bottom of the interior has a roundel of a fruiting peach branch. There is an apocryphal Chenghua mark on the base. Both bowls have a metal mount on the mouth rim.
5 and 8 7/8 in. (12.2 and 22.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Private collection, United States, late 19th/early 20th century, and thence by descent within the family.
Brought to you by
Michael Bass
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