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101 AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE,
FINE AND IMPORTANT BLUE
AND WHITE LOBED ‘FISH
POND’ BOWL

Ⴜ຤ MARK AND PERIOD OF
XUANDE

exquisitely potted, of ten-lobed mallow shape with deep
rounded sides rising from a correspondingly shaped foot
to a ared rim, the exterior strikingly decorated in di erent
washes of cobalt with a dense and dynamic scene depicting
four shes, a carp, mandarin sh and two kinds of bream,
swimming amidst water plants, the shes with dark blue
outlines and nely detailed with hatching and stippling,
rendered interrupted by clumps of lotus blooms and leaves,
the latter with white veins precisely picked out by incision
through the washes to the porcelain body, the larger leaves
further rendered with frayed edges accentuated with dark
heaping and piling, the interior similarly painted with a double-
line medallion enclosing a carp and mandarin sh dynamically
swimming amidst clumps of lotus and undulating water
weeds, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark
within a double circle

23 cm, 9 in.

EXHIBITED

Chūgoku Min Shin bijutsu ten mokuroku/Chinese Arts of the
Ming and Ch’ing Periods, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo,
1963, cat. no. 290.
Shinkan kansei kinen tokubetsu tenrankai zuhan mokuroku/
Illustrated Catalogues of the Special Exhibition in Memory of
the New Building, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, 1966, cat.
no. 287.
Mei hachi ten [Exhibition of famous bowls], Osaka, 1971, cat.
no. 10.
Tōyō no sometsuke tōji ten/Far Eastern Blue-and-white
Porcelain, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1977, cat. no. 34.
Min Shin no bijutsu [The art of Ming and Qing], Osaka
Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-26.

LITERATURE

Fujioka Ryoichi, Tōji taikei [Outlines of ceramics], vol. 42: Min
no sometsuke [Ming blue-and-white], Tokyo, 1975, col. pl. 17.
Satō Masahiko, Chūgoku tōji shi [History of Chinese
ceramics], Tokyo, 1978, p. 182, g. 224.
Satō Masahiko, Chinese Ceramics. A Short History, New York
and Tokyo, 1981, p. 164, g. 237.

Estimate Upon Request

MARK

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