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十 16. Imperial blue and white deep bowl with upright sides and slightly inverted foot, painted with four lobed medallions,
六 two with dragons, two with swooping phoenix between lingzhi clouds, the interior painted in the well with a ruyi-head

and floral medallion within a double ring beneath a band of interlocking branches at the rim.
御 12.8cm diameter.
製 The base with six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1522-1566.
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花 • From the collection of Helen and Peter Thompson, collection no. 141.
開 • A similarly painted cup is illustrated by Peter Y. K. Lam and Li Sukyee in Enlightening Elegance, Imperial Porcelain of
光 the Mid to Late Ming, The Huaihaitang Collection, 2012, no. 26, pp. 150/1.
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