MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE CHENGHUA-STYLE DEEP BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The deep sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior painted with a central flower head below a band of mallow meander bearing five blossoms separated by leaves, a similar meander repeated on the exterior, all within double line borders, with a da Ming nian zao mark within a double circle on the base
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

This design is based on 'palace bowls' with Chenghua reign marks, of which an example in the Ataka Collection is illustrated by T. Nakano, The Panoramic Views of Chinese Patterns, Tokyo, 1985, pl. 109, and another in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, p. 52, no. 19. Two sixteenth-century examples are illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 90, pl. 65, and in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Museum Pusat, Jakarta, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1982, no. 175.

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