A BLUE AND WHITE MING BOWL the exterior painted in greyish-blue with a continuous lotus scroll of five florettes above a lappet band, the interior decorated with a triple-line floral medaillon below a feathery- pattern border encircling the slightly everted rim (minute frittings, rim and body crack, footrim chips), Xuande six-character mark and of the period 27.5 cm. diam.