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fig. 2 fig. 3 fig. 4
Blue and white ‘lotus and bajixiang’ bowl and cover, marks Blue and white ‘lotus’ bowl and cover, marks and period Blue and white ‘dragon’ bowl and cover, marks and period
and period of Xuande of Xuande of Xuande
Qing court collection Qing court collection Collection of Au Bak Ling, formerly collection of Mr and Mrs
© Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei © Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing R.H.R. Palmer
Christie’s Hong Kong, 17th January 1989, lot 568
respectively, cat. nos 55 and 56. While none of Apart from these bowls from the two palace no. 123, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 17th
these featured in the Museum’s earlier Xuande collections, only four examples with cover appear January 1989, lot 568 (fig. 4).
exhibition, Ming Xuande ciqi tezhan mulu/ to be preserved worldwide: one decorated with
Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te dragons, from the Sir Percival David Collection in A bowl of the same form and design as the
Period Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, the British Museum, is illustrated in Regina Krahl present example but lacking a cover was also
1980, a later non-imperial copy based on this and Jessica Harrison-Hall, Chinese Ceramics. reconstructed from sherds discovered at the
design, with spurious Xuande mark, was included, Highlights from the Sir Percival David Collection, Ming imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen, and
cat. no. 50. London, 2009, pl. 30, together with two bowls of included in the exhibition Jingdezhen chutu Ming
this form without covers, one with underglaze- Xuande guanyao ciqi/Xuande Imperial Porcelain
Only one bowl and cover of this form, decorated red, the other with overglaze-red dragons; excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation,
with lotus scrolls but lacking the emblems, another covered bowl in the British Museum is Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 18. Two further bowls of this
appears to be remaining in the collection of the painted with lotus scrolls only, the bowl having design without cover are preserved in China, in
Palace Museum, Beijing, from the Qing (1644- been purchased without a cover, and a matching the National Museum of China, Beijing, illustrated
1911) court collection, illustrated in The Complete cover later donated by Oscar Raphael, see in Zhongguo Guojia Bowuguan guancang wenwu
Collection of Treasures, op.cit. pl. 157 (fig. 3), Jessica Harrison-Hall, op.cit., 2001, no. 4:19; yanjiu congshu/Studies on the Collections of the
together with two such bowls without cover, with another lotus-decorated example, apparently National Museum of China. Ciqi juan: Mingdai
dragons and with flower sprays, pls 155 and 156; unpublished, is in the Asian Art Museum of San [Porcelain section: Ming dynasty], Shanghai,
the latter two illustrated again, together with a Francisco, acquisition number B69P18L.a-b; 2007, pl. 41; and in the Shanghai Museum,
third bowl without cover, decorated with ‘Indian and one other dragon-decorated bowl from the illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai Bowuguan
lotus’, in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan collection of Mr and Mrs R.H.R. Palmer, now in zangpin yanjiu daxi/Studies of the Shanghai
cang Ming chu qinghua ci [Early Ming blue-and- the Au Bak Ling collection, included in several Museum Collections: A Series of Monographs.
white porcelain in the Palace Museum], Beijing, exhibitions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, e.g. Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain],
2002, vol. 2, pls 151-3. The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 1957, cat. Shanghai, 2007, pl. 4-19.
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