A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE LIANZI BOWL

细节

A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE LIANZI BOWL
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Finely potted with deep rounded sides rising straight to the mouth rim, the centre of the interior painted with a fruiting and flowering pomegranate spray within a double-circle medallion, surrounded by a lotus scroll on the cavetto below a key-fret band, the exterior with two registers of lotus petals below a crested wave border, supported on a slightly tapered foot ring edged with a double line
8 1 4 in. (21 cm.) diam.

来源

Wu Lai-hsi, sold at Sotheby's London, 26 May 1937, lot 53
George Eumorfopoulos, sold at Sotheby's London, 29 May 1940, lot 219
Enid and Brodie Lodge, sold at Sotheby's London, 11 July 1978, lot 187

出版

A. D. Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 13B
E. E. Bluett, 'Chinese Works of Art in English Collection. The Collection of Mr and Mrs Brodie Lodge, I', Apollo, June 1957, fig. XI and XII

展览

Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain, 1953, Catalogue, no. 16
Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 1953, Catalogue, no. 72

拍品专文

A number of these bowls designed with two bands of lotus petals on the exterior are published, including an example recovered from shards found at the Zhushan Imperial kilns, illustrated in Xuande Imperial Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, fig. 107. Another example from the Dr Stephen Wootton Bushell bequest in the British Museum is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2000, p. 134, fig. 4:27, where the author mentioned the use of pomegranate as symbolic fertility because of its many seeds and the lotus for its Buddhist associations, ibid. Compare also three other similar bowls, the first in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, 1998, no.154; and two were included in An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949, pl. 55, from the Roy Leventritt collection, and pl. 56 from the Richard B. Hobart collection.