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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE like the Xuande bowl illustrated in The Complete Collection
‘EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS’ BOWL of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD with Underglazed Red (I), vol. 34, Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 147.
A similar bowl is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace
the deep rounded sides resting on a straight foot, finely Museum: Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. II,
painted in ‘heaped and piled’ cobalt blue tones, with a band
of beribboned ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ above a stylized Hong Kong, 1968, pls 25a-e. See one sold at Christie’s New
York, 4th June 1987, lot 281, and again in these rooms, 23rd
lotus scroll and upright ruyi lappets, all between double rings September 2004, lot 309. Further examples have sold in our
at the rim and a wave border encircling the foot, the interior Hong Kong rooms, 26th November 1980, lot 304, and 20th
rim painted with a further border of crashing waves, the
center with a beribboned double-vajra medallion, the base November 1985, lot 98. See also one sold at Christie’s New
York, 22nd March 2019, lot 1826.
with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 10¼ in., 26 cm
$ 30,000-40,000
PROVENANCE
Bluett & Sons, London, 1960s-1980s, and thence by descent.
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮八吉祥紋大盌
Brilliantly painted, the distinctive mottled ‘heaped and piled’
effect of classic Ming dynasty blue and white wares has been 《大清乾隆年製》款
successfully simulated through the deliberate application
of darker and thicker spots of cobalt on the present bowl. 來源
Echoing the Qianlong Emperor’s penchant for classicism and Bluett & Sons，倫敦，1960至1980年代，此後家族傳承
innovation, the bowl is elegantly decorated with the bajixiang
and lotus, revisiting and reinterpreting early Ming designs

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