A Chinese blue and white bowl
Of circular section, the deep sides rising from a short straight foot and flaring slightly at the mouth rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue, the exterior finely painted with a design of floral scrolls and large flowerheads including camelia, chrysanthemum, lotus, and pomegranate flowers, the interior rim with a wide band of triangle work reserved against a blue ground, the well painted with a medallion containing a large peony bloom surrounded by leafy scrolls, the foot decorated by a fine double line in underglaze blue, the base glazed and with a six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue within a double circle. Period: Kangxi (1662‑1722). Diameter: 21 cm.
This bowl follows a Xuande prototype in form and design, including the ‘heaped and piled’ effect to the blue glaze. For examples of Xuande prototypes for this bowl, see two in the British Museum, museum number PDF.682 and 1947,0712.180, the first from the Sir Percival David collection, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., FSA, London, 1934, pl. CXXXIV (d), and the other from the collection of Mrs B.Z. Seligman, published in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, BMP, 2001, pl. 4:25.
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Of circular section, the deep sides rising from a short straight foot and flaring slightly at the mouth rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue, the exterior finely painted with a design of floral scrolls and large flowerheads including camelia, chrysanthemum, lotus, and pomegranate flowers, the interior rim with a wide band of triangle work reserved against a blue ground, the well painted with a medallion containing a large peony bloom surrounded by leafy scrolls, the foot decorated by a fine double line in underglaze blue, the base glazed and with a six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue within a double circle. Period: Kangxi (1662‑1722). Diameter: 21 cm.
This bowl follows a Xuande prototype in form and design, including the ‘heaped and piled’ effect to the blue glaze. For examples of Xuande prototypes for this bowl, see two in the British Museum, museum number PDF.682 and 1947,0712.180, the first from the Sir Percival David collection, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., FSA, London, 1934, pl. CXXXIV (d), and the other from the collection of Mrs B.Z. Seligman, published in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, BMP, 2001, pl. 4:25.
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