A FINE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE FLORAL CONICAL BOWL

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A FINE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE FLORAL CONICAL BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With straight flared sides, the mouthrim with ridges forming six-lobes, finely painted on the interior with a fruiting peach-spray framed within a triple-line border in the medallion, surrounded by six floral-sprays on the cavetto, below a border of smaller detached floral-sprays within double-lines around the rim, the exterior decorated with fruiting branches of loquat, pomegranate, grape, lychee, peach and cherry above smaller floral-sprays, the short footrim with a band of classic scroll, the underglaze-blue of a violet tone
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (1929-33)
Mr and Mrs Allan Hoover
The Ira and Nancy Koger Collection, sold in New York, 27 November 1990, lot 9.

Lot Essay

A bowl of almost the same size (23.2 cm. diam.), form and decoration, in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Mingdai Chunian Ciqi Tezhan Mulu, Early Ming Dynasty Ceramics Special Exhibition Catalogue, 1982, no. 20.

Conical bowls of this pattern take their precedence from early Ming dynasty examples. Compare an excavated Xuande-marked example illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, 1998, p. 178, no. 62.

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