XUANDE FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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A VERY RARE TIANBAI-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED 'DRAGON' STEM BOWL
XUANDE FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
6 3⁄4 in. (17 cm.) diam., Japanese wood boxes

Provenance

Joseph Chan, Hong Kong, circa 1980s, by repute

Exhibited

Sekido Museum of Art, Atsumete Tanoshii Chugokutoji, Tokyo, 2 September - 17 December 2017 (fig. 1)
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, July 2020- October 2024

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Lot Essay

Compare to a tianbai-glazed stem bowl with incised dragons also incised with a four-character Xuande mark on the interior, but of smaller size (10.9 cm. diam.), in the collection of Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, p.224, pl.no. 85.

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