细节
A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BOWL
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The exterior rendered in tones of iron-red, yellow and green enamels to depict scholars with their attendants in a garden landscape, the interior decorated with two boys at play within a double circles surrounded by four evenly spaced medallions, each enclosing a floral bloom, against a diaper-ground, the cavetto with a band of chrysanthemum scrolls below a register of stylised floral scrolls reserved on an iron-red ground, the base bearing a four-character mark, Daming Nianzhi, 'Made in the Great Ming Period' (restored)
11 in. (27.8 cm.) diam., box