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Lot Essay
The shape of the bowl, and the underglaze blue decoration, comprised of varying flower sprays, are inspired by Xuande prototypes, such as the example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, pp. 178-79, no. 62. The addition of a yellow enamel ground to this design and shape was an innovation of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period. In Taocheng jishi (Account of Porcelain Achievement), compiled in 1735, Tang Ying includes a list of fifty-seven types of wares supplied to the court, one of which was described as 'Xuande-style design on yellow ground', and noted to be a newly developed category of the period.
Other examples are in the Baur Collection illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection Geneva, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A584; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition catalogue Qing Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 79, and again illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 216.
Other examples are in the Baur Collection illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection Geneva, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A584; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition catalogue Qing Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 79, and again illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 216.