R1347
£9,850
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red thinly potted shallow bowl, painted on the interior with a central flowering lotus plant with leaves, bud and arrowhead, surrounded by sprays of prunus, lily and chrysanthemum, beneath a single underglaze blue line at the rim, the exterior with two stylised branches beneath two rings at the rim, the base with a six-character mark of Xuande within a single ring.
4 3/8 inches, 11.1 cm diameter.
Wanli, 1573-1619.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an English private collection.
- A similar pair from the collection of Eugene O. Perkins, exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1983-1988, were included by Marchant in their exhibition of Seventeenth-Century Blue and White and Copper-red and Their Predecessors, 1997, no. 18, p. 29.
- The appearance of copper-red would appear to be a rare and early example of its successful re-introduction after its apparent virtual abandonment in the mid-fifteenth century.
Condition
Fire flaw on the underside, two minute natural indentations and a tiny bubble burst on the rim.
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