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This bowl is distinctive for its elegant shape and harmonious These bowls were inspired by earlier bowls of the Yongle reign,
floral decoration which has been designed for a pure Chinese such as one from the Ardebil Shrine and now in the National
aesthetic and rendered in an intense cobalt blue. For examples Museum of Iran, Tehran, illustrated in John Alexander Pope,
of Xuande marked bowls of this pattern similarly adorned Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington,
with anhua slip decorated floral scrolls on the interior, see 1956, pl. 48, and again in Takatoshi Misugi, Chinese Porcelain
one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Collections of the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, vol. 3, Hong
Mingdai Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu/Catalogue of the Kong, 1981, cat. no. A60.
Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains
This refined design was much admired by the Qianlong
of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 61; and one in the
Emperor, who ordered precise copies of these Xuande bowls
Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Gugong Bowuguan cang
to be made by the imperial kilns. A Xuande bowl of this design
Ming chu qinghua ci [Early Ming blue-and-white porcelain in
was exhibited together with a Qianlong mark and period
the Palace Museum], vol. 2, Beijing, 2002, pl. 142. See also
example, both from the Sir Percival David collection, in the
a bowl sold in these rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 217 and
exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration. Four
another from the Edward T. Chow and Mr and Mrs Myron Falk
Dynasties of Jingdezhen Porcelain, London, 1992, cat. nos 34
collections, sold at Christie’s New York, 15th October 2001, lot
and 168.
135, and again in these rooms, 2nd May 2005, lot 506.

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