PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITIONS FUND

A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The interior is decorated with a central lotus medallion surrounded by a continuous frieze of composite floral scroll bearing six blossoms alternating with buds in the well. The exterior is decorated with leafy lotus scroll beneath a key fret border and above a band of petals and a band of classic scroll encircling the foot.
6 5/8 in. (17.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman Collection.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, accessioned in 1984.

Literature

S. Little, The Herzman Collection, privately printed, 2000, p. 82, in the section of gifts to the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Lot Essay

A Xuande-marked bowl of this pattern is illustrated by M. Tregear, Guide to Chinese Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum, 1966, pl. 30; and another is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, 1987, pl. 22. Compare, also, the example in the John A. Pope Collection included in the Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum, 1949, no. 45. Two have been sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1846 and 1 December 2009, lot 1873. See, also, the similarly decorated Xuande-marked bowl of this type and size, where the decorative bands at the rim on the exterior and on the foot are reversed, The Complete Collection of Treasure of the Palace Museum - 34 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 161, pl. 153.

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