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A RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PALACE’ Although this particular bowl is decorated in the style of its Chenghua
BOWL predecessors, palace bowls with a scrolling morningglory design
are especially rare, with the majority of bowls decorated with scrolls
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A of lilies, mallow, gardenia, hibiscus, and so on. Morningglory is less
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) commonly featured in Ming period bowls, particularly on its own
The bowl is decorated to the exterior in vibrant cobalt tones with rather than in combination other flowers. However, scrolling morning
a scrolling leafy vine bearing upward-facing morningglories, glory is found in Xuande-period faceted vases, which came to inspire
Kangxi and Yongzheng-period versions. For a Xuande period vase, see
all above a petal band to the foot. The rim is decorated with a Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum Series, Blue
scrolling lotus band. The interior is decorated with a lança character and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, vol. 34, 2001, p. 99, pl. 93.
within a double circle.
8 º in. (21 cm.) diam., Japanese paulownia wood box Several Wanli-marked palace bowls have been sold, including one
decorated with hibiscus from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at
HK$240,000-320,000 US$31,000-41,000 Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 January 1981, lot 424. A further Wanli-period
hibiscus-decorated bowl can be found in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, Special Exhibition of Chenghua Porcelain, 1976, Catalogue, no. 79.
PROVENANCE
The Seikido family collection, Nagoya, believed to be acquired in
the 19th century

明萬曆 青花牽牛花紋盌 雙圈六子楷書款
來源
名古屋關戶家族珍藏，入藏於十九世紀（傳）

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