A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE HEXAFOIL BOWL

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A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE HEXAFOIL BOWL
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior of the shallow widely-flaring conical sides painted in rich blue tones with a fruiting and flowering peach spray in the medallion below individual sprays of lotus, camellia and chrysanthemum and floral sprays around the rim, the exterior with fruiting sprays of grapes, pomegranate, longyan, peach, persimmon and lingzhi above individual floral sprays and a classic scroll around the foot, the cobalt with extensive 'heaping and piling'
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
John Sparks.
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. R.H.R Palmer, no. 396, sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 567.
Literature
The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 67.
Exhibited
Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990/1991, Catalogue, pl. 133.

Lot Essay

Similar examples from important public collections are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 6, pl. 88, from the Percival David Foundation; in op. cit., vol. 9, pl. 102, from the Freer Gallery of Art; in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Catalogue, pl. LI, from the Avery Brundage Collection; in Shanghai Bowuguan, pl. 105, from the Shanghai Museum of Art; and in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 65. Another was included in the National Palace Museum's Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Wares, Catalogue, no. 36.

Two others from private collections were exhibited in the 'Marco Polo Seventh Centenary Exhibition', Venice, 1954, Catalogue, one from the Woodthrope collection, no. 642, the other from the Garner collection, no. 643; another bowl from the Woodthrope and Mayer collections was included in the O.C.S Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1954, Catalogue, no. 76; another is published in the Asia Society Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, pl. 73; a last from the Ataka collection is illustrated in 'Oriental Ceramic Exhibition', 1979, Catalogue, no. 102.

(US$160,000-240,000)

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