CHENGHUA SIX CHARACTER MARK, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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An Arita blue and white octagonal 'shipping' bowl
Chenghua six character mark, early 18th Century
The octagonal sides painted to the exterior with a continuous shipping scene with various European and local trading vessels nearing a fortified harbour with high cliffs in the background, the inner roundel enclosing a medallion of similar ships surrounded by a leaf-shaped octagonal border, below a two-tier lappet band interrupted by maple leaves at the everted rim, base star crack
19.6 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar bowl is in The Burghley House Collection, Stamford, Linconshire, see John Ayers, Oliver Impey & J. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, Oriental Ceramic Society, p. 113, fig. 68; D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Japans Porselein met blauwe decoraties uit de tweede helft van de 17e eeuw en de eerste helft van de 18e eeuw, Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van Ceramiek, 64/65, 197 1/2-3, p. 114, no 194; and Barry Davies Oriental Art, Ko-Imari Porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey, London, 1992, p. 140, fig 79.

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