A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE CONICAL BOWLS

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE CONICAL BOWLS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each with widely flared sides rising to the lobed rim, the interior painted with a central medallion of a fruiting and flowering peach branch below six flowers in the well and a narrow band of flower sprigs at the rim, the exterior with an upper register of six different fruiting and flowering branches above a lower register of six different flowers, with a band of classic scroll encircling the foot, with apocryphal Xuande mark on the base
8¾ in. (22.4 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

A Kangxi-marked bowl of this unusual pattern, although of slightly larger size (23 cm.), is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art; Chinese Ceramics IV; Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 51. For the fifteenth century prototype, see d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, pl. L1(C).

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