A FINE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'DRAGON' BOWL

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'DRAGON' BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The bowl is potted with flaring sides, sharply angled above the tapering foot and applied with double moulded bow-strings above a band of upright lotus lappets encircling the base and below two sinuous scaly dragons striding around the sides amidst ruyi-shaped clouds, well painted with 'heaped and piled' effect
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam., box

拍品專文

Examples of the early Ming version of this bowl were included in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, 1998, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 54 for the exact design in underglaze-blue, and no. 55 for the covered example with underglaze-blue and copper-red decoration. Another red and blue Xuande-marked bowl from the Percival David Foundation was included in the O. C. S. Exhibition of The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, no. 156.

(US$40,000-50,000)