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A LARGE MING WHITE-GLAZED BOWL
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The bowl has deep curved sides, rising from a slightly tapered foot ring, evenly covered with a white glaze, the underglaze-blue reign mark inscribed on the base (rim hairline)
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Bowls of this size and type have been published, one in the British Museum, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 61A; and another in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 769. Cf. also the bowl sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 713.

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