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A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, LIANZI WAN
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    HK$2,000,000 - HK$3,000,000
  • ($258,847 - $388,270)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A MAGNIFICENT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, LIANZI WAN
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

The deep sides rising from a point at the centre of the base, the exterior finely painted in rich blue tones with a band of elongated lotus petals below a keyfret border at the rim, the interior with a central spray of fruiting loquat within double circles, below a leafy scroll alternating with camellia and chrysanthemum flowerheads, and a band of breaking waves at the rim, the cobalt blue of sapphire tone with attractive 'heaping and piling'
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam., box


明永樂 青花蓮子盌

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Provenance

A Japanese private collection

Lot Notes

Three examples in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing are illustrated by Geng Baochang, Gugong guoyu yuancang mingchu qinghua ci, vol. 1, Forbidden City Press, Beijing, 2002, pp. 125-127, nos. 65-67. A closely related example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, 1987, col. pl. 44. Cf. another in the Freer Gallery, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, 1981, vol. 9, pl. 93. The Percival David Foundation also has a comparable bowl, Catalogue, Section 3, no. B637; Feng Xianming illustrates a similar bowl in the Beijing Palace Museum, 'Yongle and Xuande Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Palace Museum', Orientations, November 1987, p. 62, fig. 13, which compares interestingly with another lianzi bowl that was clearly exported at an early date to the Middle East, illustrated by John A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, 1956, pl. 47, 29.326. Compare also to the bowl from the collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, 1994, vol. 2, 1995, fig. 670; and a bowl from the Hay, Palmer and Jingguantang Collections sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2009, lot 1871.

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