A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE AND ANHUA BOWL

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE AND ANHUA BOWL
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

In the style of the early Ming prototype, painted in inky-blue tones with a stylised lotus meander above overlapping lappets on the exterior, the centre of the interior with a single flower-head below anhua flower scrolls in the well--8 1/8in. (20.7cm.) diam.

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A similar bowl with apocyphal Xuande mark is illustrated in Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 11 together with a Ming original; another with a Qianlong seal mark is in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, is illustrated in Ceramics of the World, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, fig. 62 and by Rosemary Scott, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, A Guide to the Collection, no. 102

For an original Xuande prototype, see lot

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