AN EARLY MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWL

18TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWL
18TH CENTURY
With steep sides flaring in a curve to the rim, well painted in fifteenth-century style with a continuous lotus scroll above two bow-string bands and a border of lotus lappets above the short foot, the interior with apocryphal Xuande six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
6¾ in. (17 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1966, lot 66.

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Lot Essay

The unusual shape and decoration of this bowl are based on Xuande mark and period prototypes, such as the bowl with cover illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 156-7, no. 51.

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