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A BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE ‘LOTUS’ BOWL, LIANZI WAN The present lot is an 18th century continuation of a well known type
Probably 18th century from the Yongle reign. See the Yongle prototype illustrated in The
The bowl with deep sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, finely Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Underglaze
painted on the exterior in dark blue tones with a band of elongated blue and red porcelain wares, Hong Kong, 2000, pl.75. Another ‘lotus’
lotus petals below a key-fret band around the rim, the interior with a bowl, Yongle, from the Percival David Collection, now in the British
central spray of fruiting loquat within double circles, surrounded by Museum, London, is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Copper Red
leafy scrolls of alternating blossoming camellias and chrysanthemum Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art,
flowerheads and a band of breaking waves at the rim, the deep tones London, 2004, p.85, no.B637.
of cobalt with extensive ‘heaping and piling’.
10cm (4in) diam. A related blue and white Ming-style ‘lotus’ bowl, 18th century, is
illustrated by S.Pierson, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and
£10,000 - 15,000 Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of
CNY89,000 - 130,000 Chinese Art, London, 2004, ,p.111, no.C649.
或十八世紀 青花蓮瓣纏枝花卉紋蓮子盌

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