A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BOWL

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A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

The exterior rendered in tones of iron-red, yellow and green enamels to depict scholars with their attendants in a garden landscape, the interior decorated with two boys at play within a double circles surrounded by four evenly spaced medallions, each enclosing a floral bloom, against a diaper-ground, the cavetto with a band of chrysanthemum scrolls below a register of stylised floral scrolls reserved on an iron-red ground, the base bearing a four-character mark, Daming Nianzhi, 'Made in the Great Ming Period' (restored)
11 in. (27.8 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Manno Art Museum, no. 400

Literature

Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan, 1976, vol. 14, p. 236, no. 234

Lot Essay

A similarly enamelled bowl of this size decorated with lotus pond scene on the exterior and a floral interior, in the British Museum, is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, 1999, p. 258, no. 9:101.

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