YONGLE (1403-25)

Details

A EARLY MING ANHUA-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED BOWL, LIANZIWAN
YONGLE (1403-25)
With deep rounded sides, incised on the exterior with a leafy composite scroll bearing alternating chrysanthemum and camellia below a key-pattern border, and in the interior with a chrysanthemum spray enclosed within a wide band of radiating moulded chrysanthemum petals below moulded waves, all under an even white glaze stopping neatly around the foot
8 5/16 in. (21.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 214

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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; and one, possibly from the Kenneth Malcome Collection, exhibited in the Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, 1948, Cat. no. 108, sold in these Rooms, 17 June 2003, lot 18. 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 in Sotheby's London, 26th June 1973, lot 247.

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