A VERY RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMEL-DECORATED BOWL

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A VERY RARE MING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMEL-DECORATED BOWL
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Well potted with rounded sides, the exterior is finely painted in underglaze-blue with two sinuous five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit against a brightly enamelled yellow ground, with green-enamelled wave bands punctuated with yellow flowers around the rim and the slightly tapered foot (minor glaze chips)
6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) diam., box

Literature

Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Volume 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 808

Lot Essay

Cf. another very similar bowl previously from the M. Meyer Collection (inventory no. 456), sold in our London Rooms, 5 April 1976, lot 40, and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 164, fig. 1.

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