A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

Bowls of this size with finely painted landscape scene from Tianqi period are very rare. The design is brilliantly executed in cobalt blue, depicting a city wall, possibly the Great Wall, with pagodas and flags amidst clouds. The border at the rim is with bracket-lobed cartouches enclosing rabbit motif and reserved on a diaper ground; such decoration was popular during the Tianqi period. See a blue and white foliate dish from the Tianqi period with similar rabbit motif against a diaper ground in the Palace Museum, Beijing, as shown on the museum's website.