A FINE AND VERY RARE LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
A FINE AND VERY RARE LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

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A FINE AND VERY RARE LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

Painted in bright purplish-blue tones around the exterior with four scenes of scholars and their servants within a continuous landscape with lotus ponds, balustraded gardens, trees and mountains in the far distance, above a ruyi band around the base, the interior with a roundel enclosing the Three Friends of Winter, bamboo, pine and prunus, all within double-line borders
12 1/8 in. (30.9 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Jiajing-marked bowls with similar scenes of figures in landscape are publish in varying sizes, but few that are of this large size. A near-identical bowl, of slightly larger size (36.2 cm. diam.), is illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 139.

Several large bowls from this period, decorated with the subject of the hundred boys, are known; cf. an example which was sold in these Rooms, 7 July 2003 (Catalogue dated 28 April 2003), lot 654.

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