17TH CENTURY

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AN OLIVE-GREEN AND BLUE-GLAZED INCISED BOWL
17TH CENTURY
With steep rounded sides rising from a high slightly splayed foot, the interior freely incised with a prunus, a peony and a lotus spray under a cobalt-blue glaze, the exterior covered in a smooth olive-green glaze stopping around the mid-section of the brown-dressed base
7 3/8 in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Messrs. Bluett & Sons Ltd., London
E.T. Hall Collection, no. 280

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Lot Essay

Compare the bowl with tapering slightly rounded sides with incised decoration, the interior glazed blue and the exterior under an olive-green glaze, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain (Beijing), Hong Kong, 1999, p. 87, fig. 80.

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