M5787
£24,500
Description
A Chinese porcelain imperial blue and white deep bowl of yu form, on a tall footrim painted on the exterior with a dense continuous lotus pond, with leaves, flowers, buds and arrowheads rising from the water, the clever painting in different shades of blue, the foot with ruyi-head scrolls, the interior similarly painted with lotus flowers and leaves amongst crested waves encircling a blue ground crested wave medallion, all beneath underglaze blue double lines at the rim.
The underside with six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1522-1566.
5 1/8 inches, 13 cm diameter.
Condition
Excellent condition with no chips, cracks or restoration, minute rim frits and two tiny cracks to footrim, general wear consistent with age.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Reginald and Lena Palmer, collection no. 300.
- Purchased from Mallett, London, December 1933 as recorded in the Palmer leger.
- Sold by Christie’s Hong Kong in their auction of A Heritage of Connoisseurship: Chinese Art from The Palmer Family Collection, 12th December 2024, lot 1537.
- The pair to this bowl from the Huaihaitang Collection, with the mark written by the same hand, is illustrated by Dr Mok Kar-wing, Maria in Eternal Enlightenment, The Virtual World of the Jiajing Emperor, no. 226, pp. 418/9.
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