A RARE PAIR OF LATE MING GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED INCISED SQUARE BOWLS JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

Details

A RARE PAIR OF LATE MING GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED INCISED SQUARE BOWLS JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with deep, rounded sides flaring towards the rim, alternately decorated on the exterior with either a crane or a phoenix in flight amidst leafy tendrils of lotus above a border of overlapping leaf tips and a band of simplified foliate scroll on the foot, the interior with a central square medallion of a crane and phoenix confronted on a lingzhi stem repeated as a continuous frieze below the rim, all incised and highlighted in bright green reserved on a mustard yellow ground (one with restored rim chips, the other with two short cracks at foot)
7¾in. (19.7cm.) across, boxes (2)

Provenance

J.M Hu Collection

Further details

See illustration of two views

Lot Essay

A bowl of this shape, size and pattern with a Jiajing mark is in the collection of the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Ming Polychrome Wares, Section 5, pl. VI, no. 59. Compare, also, the example in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in the Catalogue, Enamelled Wares of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pls. 6 and 6a; another in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1975, no. 67; and a smaller pair of bowls illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, 1976, p. 277, no. 831

A similar bowl was sold in these rooms, November 9, 1978, lot 126