AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE STEM BOWLS

JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE STEM BOWLS
JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)
The exterior of each bowl is decorated with a procession of scholars and attendants, including one carrying a qin, in a landscape punctuated by a pine tree on one side and terminating at a pavilion on the opposite side, where another scholar awaits their arrival. The pedestal foot is encircled by four ruyi-shaped clouds, and the interior has a figural medallion below a band of ruyi heads at the rim.
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Collection of George Rowley, Professor of Art History, Princeton University, acquired in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Lot Essay

Compare the very similar stem bowl, also dated to the Jiajing period, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 35 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 161, no. 150.

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