A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

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

The interior of the bowl densely decorated, the centre with a lotus pond scene depicting lotus flowers, leaves and arrowheads half-submerged in water, certain floral elements filled with cross-hatching, encircled by angular scrollwork and a broad foliate meander on the cavetto, below a diamond-motif border at the mouth rim, the exterior with a broad frieze enclosing a foliate scroll bearing cross-hatched leaves and curly tendrils below wavy lines at the everted rim
6 1/8 in. (16.5 cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

Compare with an identical bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, 1998, pl. 141; and another included in the Chang Foundation exhibition, Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, 1998, pl. 108. A bowl with a similar decoration on the interior and dragons around the exterior is illustrated op. cit., 1998, pl. 106-1.