A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE CONICAL BOWL

ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE CONICAL BOWL
encircled xuande six-character mark and of the period
Finely painted to the gently-rounded sides with a leafy scroll bearing six full peony blooms alternating with six smaller buds, between a single line below the rim and an overlapping-petal band above the short foot, the interior painted with a six-petalled flower-head within double lines at the well and rim
8.1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam., wood box

Lot Essay

Similar marked bowls include the example illustrated in the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art Exhibition, 1978, Catalogue no.9, formerly in the Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark Collection and exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1953-54, Catalogue no.78. Compare also the similar bowl in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.55. Others are illustrated in Mingdai Taoci Daquan (Comprehensive List of Ming Dynasty Porcelain), pl.164; in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.14, pl.149, and also p.312, no.48 for a black-and-white detail; in Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Catalogue, pl.66; in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, pl.XVII; by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl.29B for the example in the Brankston Collection, also illustrated by A. D. Brankston, Early Ming Wares from Chingtechen, pl.11; in Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Catalogue, pl.89; and in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol.I, no.777.

A similar bowl was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 532.

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