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A RARE AND FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

明宣德 青花纏枝蓮紋碗 雙圈六字楷書款

The bowl is delicately painted with the ‘heaping and piling’ efect, depicting
stylised lotus blooms with leafy scrolls to the exterior. The interior is decorated
with a peony spray to the central roundel, surrounded by six further foral
clusters.

8º in. (21 cm.) diam.

£50,000-80,000 $77,000-120,000
€69,000-110,000
(mark)

PROVENANCE: 北京故宮博物院藏一件明宣德青花纏枝蓮紋碗，尺寸，
器形及紋飾與此器極相近，收錄於2000年香港出版
From a Private European Collection, acquired in the 1970’s 《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集34青花釉裏紅（上）》，
第160頁，圖版152號。上海博物館亦藏一例，收錄於
來源：歐洲私人珍藏；購自1970年代 1987年香港出版，汪慶正主編的《青花釉裏紅》，第
135頁，圖版131號。另可參考倫敦大英博物館藏兩件相
A Xuande bowl of very similar size, form and design is in the Palace Museum 似的青花纏枝碗例子，收錄於2001年倫敦出版，Jessica
in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Harrison-Hall 撰寫的《Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ce-
Museum - 34 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, ramics in the British Museum》，第133頁，圖版4.24號及
2000, p. 160, no. 152. Another example is in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated 4.25號。
by Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Red & Blue, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 135, no. 131.
Also compare the present lot to two related bowls, both painted with foral
scrolls, in the British Museum in London, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall,
Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
2001, p. 133, nos.4:24 and 4:25.

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