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1246 The shape of this bowl and the design in underglaze blue comprised of
varying foral sprays are inspired by a Xuande prototype, such as the example
A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special
CONICAL BOWL Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty,
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Taipei, 1998, pp. 178-9, no. 62. The addition of a yellow enamel ground to
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) this design and shape was an innovation of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen
during the Yongzheng period. In his Taocheng jishi, ‘Account of Porcelain
Of conical form, the bowl is strongly potted with wide faring sides rising from Achievement’, compiled in 1735, Tang Ying includes a list of ffty-seven types
a spreading foot to an everted rim. The interior is delicately painted with a of wares supplied to the court, one of which was described as ‘Xuande-style
central medallion enclosing a leafy spray of chrysanthemum, surrounded by design on yellow ground’, and noted to be a newly developed category of the
six evenly spaced foral sprays in the cavetto, which are lotus, mallow, camelia, period.
chrysanthemum, gardenia, and hibiscus, below a narrow band of foral sprigs
at rim. The exterior is similarly painted, with a thin band of key fret to the Similar Qianlong-marked bowls are found in the Qing Court Collection
underside of the everted rim and a band of cloud scroll encircling the foot, all and international museums. The National Palace Museum, Taipei, has
against a bright lemon-yellow enamel ground, continuing onto the base around nine examples listed on the online archive, museum numbers: zhongci
the underglaze-blue mark, save for the exterior of the foot covered with a green 003353N-003361N. Another example is in the Baur Foundation, illustrated
enamel. by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection Geneva, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A584;
another in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition catalogue Qing
10º in. (26 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 79, and again illustrated in The
Oficial Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 216.
$100,000-150,000
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