A RARE MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE BOWL

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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A RARE MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE BOWL
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of conical form, the bowl is exquisitely painted in fifteenth century style with six detached floral sprays scattered around the cavetto encircling a central medallion containing a seventh spray, the everted rim decorated with a frieze of detached floral scrolls, the exterior with a further six sprays between green-ground borders of key-fret at the rim and classic scrollwork around the tapered foot, entirely covered in an even lemon-yellow enamel, the nianhao on the recessed base reserved on white
10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke, sold in New York, 30 May 1990, lot 183.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 28; and another in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A584, where he mentions one in the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. 260-1905). He also quotes on p. 9, a translation by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, 1981, p. 200, that the List of Porcelains supplied to the Court compiled by Tang Ying in 1729, includes as item 27 'copies of porcelain of the reign of Xuande with painted designs on a yellow ground'. For the Ming blue and white prototype of this design, see the Xuande-marked conical bowl with comparable interior decoration, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, pls. 28 and 29.

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