A VERY RARE DATED LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

CHONGZHEN EIGHT-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, DATED TO THE BINGZI YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1636, AND OF THE PERIOD

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A VERY RARE DATED LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
CHONGZHEN EIGHT-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, DATED TO THE BINGZI YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1636, AND OF THE PERIOD
The deep rounded sides rising to an upturned rim, the exterior well painted with a phoenix with long trailing tail feathers in flight amidst a landscape of rocks, peonies and plantain in which a qilin is seen fleeing, its head turned back to look at the phoenix, above a band of overlapping petals, the center of the interior with a yinyang symbol surrounded by the Eight Trigrams below two groupings of rocks and trees in the well, a bird perched in the blossoming branch of one of the trees
14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Dated examples of Chongzhen period porcelain are exceedingly rare. A blue and white incense burner decorated with dragons pursuing a pearl, cyclically dated to the ding chou year of Chongzhen (1637) is illustrated by S. Riddell in Dated Chinese Antiquities, 600-1650, London, 1979, p. 111, no. 98. See, also, a pair of bowls decorated with Daoist trigrams around a central yinyang symbol, dated to the third quarter of the sixteenth century, illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986, p. 639, no. 951.

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