An Unusual Ming-Style Blue and White Bowl

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

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An Unusual Ming-Style Blue and White Bowl
Yongzheng Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue within a Double Circle and of the Period
Finely painted on the exterior with composite foliate scroll set between bands of key-fret and petal lappets, the interior with a peony spray within a central medallion, all in inky tones of underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling'
9.5/8in. (23.7cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A similar bowl from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, Book 1, pp. 90-91, pls. 13 and 13a-c.

For a probable prototype see the Yongle bowl of similar shape and size decorated with lotus scroll on the exterior and peony scroll around the inner walls excavated from the late Yongle stratum and included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 44.

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