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BAY AREA COLLECTOR
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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE BOWL WITH BAJIXIANG A BLUE AND WHITE JARDINIERE
DECORATION 17th century
Jiajing mark, Kangxi period Heavily potted with curving walls rising to a waisted neck and everted
The wide shallow well finished with a flared rim and painted in simple rim, the base unglazed displaying an orange clay body, the exterior
outline form with a narrow lotus flower and leaf band above a quatrefoil walls painted with birds and butterflies flying among various flowers
pattern of scepter heads centering the well, the exterior walls similarly and leafy branches.
outlined with the Eight Buddhist Treasures above an interlaced leaf 14in (35.5cm) diameter
and scrolling tendril pattern, the six-character mark in standard script
written within a double ring and all surfaces except the foot pad US$6,000 - 8,000
covered with a lustrous glaze.
4 1/8in (10.5cm) diameter
US$3,000 - 5,000
For a stem bowl with similar decoration of scrolling tendrils and Eight
Buddhist emblems combined with anhua decoration, see S. T. Yeo
and Jean Martin, Chinese Blue & White Ceramics, Singapore 1989, ca.
no. 266, p. 232-3 and Plate 141, as Kangxi period.
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