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A GROUP OF THREE BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS WITH TALL A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISH
FEET 15th/16th century
Le dynasty, 15th-16th century Painted in outline and wash with a single stylized peony spray in a
The largest loosely painted with a clam-shaped flower head at the roundel framed by a narrow band of flower petals centering the floor of
base of the well reversed by a peony flower and leafy spray meander the well, a band of peony buds and leafy stems filling the cavetto and a
above jeweled lappets, the deeply recessed base finished with brown diffuse scrolling tendril pattern to the inside edge of the rim, the reverse
wash; the second, very carefully painted with a peony flower roundel at outlined with a jeweled lappet pattern and the recessed base within
the base of the well, geometric bands on both sides of the rim, a lotus the foot ring colored with brown wash.
flower and leafy stem meander above jeweled lappets and the deeply 14 1/4in (36cm) diameter
recessed base also finished with brown wash; the third centered with
an indistinct Chinese character written within a firing ring at the floor $8,000 - 12,000
of the well, stylized chrysanthemum flower and leafy meander above a
jeweled lappet band above the very tall foot and brown wash applied Published
within the recessed base . James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
6, 5 and 4 7/8in (16.3, 12.7 and 12.2cm) diameter Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 92, no.
3 3/8, 3 1/8 and 3 3/8in (8.7, 8.5 and 8.7cm) high 30.

$1,500 - 2,000 For comparable deep dish of similar size in the collection of Quynh
Tall footed bowls formed a major portion of the Hoi An Hoard and Kieu, see John Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A
the output of the Chu Dao Kilns. For spiral flower heads at the center Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 305, no. 239 (34cm diameter).
of the well and other decoration on the first bowl in this lot, see
Butterfields sale, Treasures from the Hoi An Hoard, 11-13 October,
2000, lots 1487 to 1521. The second bowl in the lot with carefully
drawn geometric bands and lotus flower meanders is related to a
small group of bowls from the Hoi An Hoard offered in lots 1586 to
1593, as well lot 1643, the single stem cup preserved in the cargo.
For examples identical to the third bowl in the lot excavated at the kiln
site, see Tang Bo Hoanh, Gom Chu Dao [Chu Dao Ceramics], 1999,
p. 102; and Philippe Truong, Philippe Truong, The Elephant and the
Lotus: Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, New
York, 2007, p. 196, no. 159 (as Ngoi and Ch Dau style, 16th century).

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