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17TH CENTURY
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TWO SIMILAR CONICAL BOWLS, ONE BLUE AND WHITE, ONE DOUCAI
17TH CENTURY
The two bowls are each slightly flared and their exteriors are similarly decorated with a continuous scene depicting two scholars, one seated and one recumbent, and an attendant holding a stack of books, all in a fenced garden amongst rocks and plantain. The interiors with an apocryphal Yongle four-character seal mark surrounded by two bands of scattered flower heads on a tightly swirled ground.
Each 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam. (2)
17TH CENTURY
The two bowls are each slightly flared and their exteriors are similarly decorated with a continuous scene depicting two scholars, one seated and one recumbent, and an attendant holding a stack of books, all in a fenced garden amongst rocks and plantain. The interiors with an apocryphal Yongle four-character seal mark surrounded by two bands of scattered flower heads on a tightly swirled ground.
Each 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
The Peter and Nancy Thompson Collection
The blue and white bowl, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 457
The blue and white bowl, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 457
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