A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BOWL
A RARE LARGE POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED BOWL

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
来源
Manno Art Museum, no. 400
出版
Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan, 1976, vol. 14, p. 236, no. 234

拍品专文

A similarly enamelled bowl of this size decorated with lotus pond scene on the exterior and a floral interior, in the British Museum, is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, 1999, p. 258, no. 9:101.