A MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

细节

A MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
XUANDE

With deep rounded sides and slightly everted rim, the interior finely painted with a central flower spray within double lines and a wide band of composite floral scrolling in the well below a key-pattern band at the rim, the exterior with a frieze of meandering lotus scroll set between borders of classic scroll above and lappets below, a key-pattern band encircling the foot, small rim chip and cracks--7¾in. (19.5cm.) diam.

拍品专文

No blue and white bowl of this exact design appears to have been published, though there are a number which differ only in the use of rim and foot bands. For a number of examples see Margaret Medley, "Re-grouping 15th Century Blue and White", T.O.C.S., London, 1962-63; John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, D. C., 1956, pl. 47, no. 29.321; and Mostra d'Arte Cenise, Venice, 1954, Catalogue no. 624