QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl is finely painted in fifteenth-century style with simulated 'heaping and piling' around the exterior with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang) tied with fluttering ribbons and supported on lotus blooms growing from scrolling leafy stems above a band of upright lappets. The foot and inner mouth rim are encircled by wave bands and the interior medallion is painted with a double-vajra surrounded by further fluttering ribbons.
10 in. (26 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Marchant & Son, London.

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Lot Essay

A Qianlong bowl of this pattern is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, 1968, pl. 25; and another was sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2008, lot 199.

The design of this bowl is based on that found on a few Xuande-marked bowls painted around the exterior with the bajixiang amidst scrolling lotus, such as the example illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum -34- Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 147.

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