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A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' BOWL -

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A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' BOWL
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    HK$3,000,000 - HK$5,000,000
  • ($388,839 - $648,065)

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Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' BOWL
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

Of gently flaring conical form, the exterior exquisitely painted in vivid shades of cobalt blue with the 'Three Friends of Winter', the entwined pine and flowering prunus branches rising above small clusters of bamboo issuing from the base, all between double line borders at the rim and triple lines encircling the ring foot, the interior and base covered in a transparent glaze
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box


明永樂 青花歲寒三友斗笠盌

此器胎體潔白細膩，釉色瑩潤，發色濃艷、紋飾秀雅。幾株修竹、松梅枝幹交錯，互相暉映，表達仕大夫個人的氣節、風骨。

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Compare other published examples of this form decorated with the 'Three Friends of Winter' theme: a bowl in the Shanghai Museum collection, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue & Red, Woods Publishing, 1987, no. 53; one from the Herbert Hoover collection, included in The Philadelphia 1949 Exhibition of Ming Blue-and-White, illustrated in the Catalogue, 1954, p. 30, no. 28; one in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, London, 1986, p. 424, no. 610; and a fourth illustrated by John Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, 1956, pl. 47, no. 29.330. Another Yongle bowl depicting the same subject was sold at Christie's London, 12 October 1970, lot 22.

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