AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

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AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
YONGLE

Finely potted with deep rounded sides flaring slightly at the rim, the exterior painted in vivid cobalt tones with a lotus scroll, the flowers in various stages of bloom, between a border of key-fret below the rim and lotus lappets around the base above classic scroll around the straight foot, the interior with a central lotus sprig medallion encircled by a continuous scroll issuing peonies, below a thin chrysanthemum scroll border, all divided by single and double lines (star crack, two restored rim chips, one with an associated hairline)
6 5/8in. (16.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A slightly larger bowl of this design excavated from the late Yongle stratum was included in the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, Catalogue, no. 44. Another Yongle bowl of similarly strong cobalt tone differing only slightly in size and painted to the interior well with a composite flower scroll instead of a peony scroll from the Edward T. Chow Collection was sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1981, lot 404.

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