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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 清康熙ǎ青花折枝花卉紋葵۴盌ǎ
HEXAFOIL BOWL 雙१Ս字楷書款
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) Ϝ源
秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
The conical bowl with flared sides rises to a lobed rim and is decorated on the
interior with a central medallion of a fruiting and flowering peach branch below
six flowers in the well and a narrow band of flower sprigs at the rim. The exterior
is decorated with an upper register of six different fruiting and flowering branches
above a lower register of six different flowers. The foot is encircled by a band of
classic scroll.
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan. (mark)

The current bowl is based on early Ming dynasty Xuande-period prototypes.
A blue and white bowl with very similar design and bearing a Xuande mark, but
dating to the Kangxi period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing,
and is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Ming Chu Qinghuaci (Early Ming
Blue and White Ceramics in the Palace Museum Collection), vol. 2, Beijing,
2002, pp. 334-35, no. 179. Also illustrated, pp. 278-79, no. 146, is the Xuande
prototype for this bowl.

(another view)

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