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22 juillet 2017

A fine and rare blue and white 'Lotus' bowl , Xuande six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1426-1435)

A fine and rare blue and white 'Lotus' bowl , Xuande six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1426-1435)

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Lot 3110. A fine and rare blue and white 'Lotus' bowl , Xuande six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1426-1435), 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 4,000,000 - HKD 6,000,000Price realised HKD 5,080,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Finely potted with deep rounded sides rising to slightly flaring rims, the centre of the interior is painted with a central medallion with a leafy spray of peony, encircled by six lotus sprays to the cavetto, and below a border of dotted prunus blossoms at the rim. The exterior is delicately painted with a broad band of six lotus blooms depicted in two styles, borne on a continuous scroll burgeoning myriad of curling leaves, all above a band of upright lappets and another border of dotted prunus blossoms surrounding the foot.

Provenance: Bluett & Sons, London, 1937
Raymond F.A. Riesco Collection, no. 169

LiteratureE.E. Bluett, The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, circa 1951, p. 12, fig. 12
London Borough of Croydon, Riesco Collection of Chinese Ceramics Handlist, Croydon, 1987, p. 11, no. 89 

NoteWith its fine potting and elegant decoration, the current bowl is a classic example of Xuande porcelain, and is particularly distinguished by the border of dotted prunus blossoms at rims, a motif that first appeared on Yongle porcelain, as seen on the exterior rims of two small Yongle-marked blue and white 'press-hand' cups, or yashoubei, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 81-2, nos. 78-9. These somewhat abstract florettes, spaciously arranged and seemingly effortless painted, imbue the otherwise stylised design with a sense of space and liveliness.

Compare a nearly identical example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, pp. 328-9, no. 137; one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 160, no. 152. In Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Lu Minghua in Mingdai guanyao ciqi, p. 117, fig. 3-35; another sold at Christie's Tokyo, 16-17 February 1980, lot 784, and illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 116, fig. 5; and one sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2005, lot 505. 

A rare blue and white 'Lotus' bowl , Xuande mark and period (1426-1435)

A rare blue and white 'Lotus' bowl , Xuande mark and period (1426-1435). Sold  for 2,920,000 HKD at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2005, lot 505. Photo: Sotheby's.

Christie's. The R.F.A Riesco Collection of Important Chinese Ceramics, 27 November 2013, Hong Kong

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