17TH CENTURY

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A MATCHED PAIR OF BLUE-GLAZED BOWLS
17TH CENTURY
With wide flaring sides rising from short, slightly tapering feet, each freely incised in the interior with two four-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit around a flaming pearl, covered overall in a thin cobalt blue glaze below the brown-glazed rims and stopping neatly around the brown-dressed feet and bases
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

One bearing a C. T. Loo label
E. T. Hall Collection, nos. 313 and 314

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Lot Essay

Bowls of this type were made from the end of the Ming dynasty to the early Qing. For similar examples see the one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 79, p. 86; another, in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Gugong Cang Ci, Ming Danse You Ci, 1968, vol. II, pl.9; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome, London, 1973, pl.1, no. 501.

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