YONGLE (1403-25)

Details

A FINE EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED BOWL, LIANZI WAN
YONGLE (1403-25)
Finely potted with deep rounded sides, incised on the exterior with a leafy composite scroll bearing three chrysanthemum blossoms alternating with mallow and camellia below a key-pattern border, and on the interior with a chrysanthemum spray enclosed within a wide band of moulded lotus petals rising from the centre to a band of moulded waves below the rim, all under an even, attractive white glaze, rim and foot hairline crack
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Bearing hand-written K. R. M. label, no.118, possibly Kenneth Malcome collection.
Mr. and Mrs. Denis Barnham

Literature

Transactions of the Oriental Society, London, 1948-49, pl.25, no.108

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, 1948, Cat. no. 108

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar bowl in the Falk Collection illustrated in H. D. Ling and E. T. Chow, Collections of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, in two volumes, Hong Kong, 1950, vol. 11, no. 86, pp. 64-5, and in M. Komor, Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, New York, 1951, no. 23, subsequently sold in our New York Rooms, 20th September 2001, lot 133. Compare also the similar bowl exhibited at the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1977, subsequently sold Sotheby's London, 15th April 1980, lot 267; and one from the Clark Collection, included in the London Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, Catalogue no. 9, and later sold Sotheby's London, 26th June 1973, lot 247.

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