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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The deep sides are boldly decorated on the exterior with two scenes of the
‘Three Friends of Winter’ (prunus, pine and bamboo), the scenes divided by
two tall rock formations, and with a pair of birds perched in the branches of
the prunus trees, while in the center of the interior is a medallion of a hawk
perched on a rock between two rocks within a double circle, below a band of
birds perched on four fowering branches separated by fying insects.
13Ω in. (34.3 cm.) diam.
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE (detail of interior)
Private American collection, acquired in the 1960s.
明十六世紀 青花歲寒三友圖盌
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