Details
A Ming blue and white bowl
painted with birds and butterflies in flight above stag and monkeys in a landscape of pine, fruiting trees, flowers and rockwork, the interior with a peach tree issuing from rockwork -- 13¾in. (35cms) diam, (broken and restuck), underglaze blue four character hall mark to base reading 'beautiful vessel for the jade hall'.
See Colour Plate 4.
painted with birds and butterflies in flight above stag and monkeys in a landscape of pine, fruiting trees, flowers and rockwork, the interior with a peach tree issuing from rockwork -- 13¾in. (35cms) diam, (broken and restuck), underglaze blue four character hall mark to base reading 'beautiful vessel for the jade hall'.
See Colour Plate 4.