A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS' BOWL QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

the deep rounded sides resting on a straight foot, finely painted in 'heaped and piled' cobalt blue tones, with a band of beribboned 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' above a stylized lotus scroll and upright ruyi lappets, all between double rings at the rim and a wave border encircling the foot, the interior rim painted with a further border of crashing waves, the center with a beribboned double-vajra medallion, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 10 1/4 in., 26 cm

Provenance:
Bluett & Sons, London, 1960s-1980s, and thence by descent.