Un grand bol lotus lotus à décor anhua - dynastie Ming, époque Yongle (1403-1424)

A fine and large anhua decorated white bowl, Ming dynasty, Yongle period.

de forme lienzi à hauts rebords sur un pied légèrement en biseau, le contour finement incisé de pétales de fleur, l'intérieur à décor anhua d'une pivoine et rinceaux de chrysanthèmes sous une bordure de vagues ourlées, recouvert d'une glaçure "douce blanche" tianbai. diam. 20.7cm, 8 1/8 in. Estimé: 40,000—60,000 EUR

PROVENANCE: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York .

EXHIBITED: Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no.592.

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 686.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, no. 877, p. 376.

CATALOGUE NOTE: Compare with a lianzi bowl from the collections of M. C. Wang, E. T. Chow and Mathias Komor, included in the China Institute of America exhibition Ming Porcelains. A Retrospective, China House Gallery, New York, 1970, cat. no. 8, sold at Christie's New York, 20^th September 1001, lot 132; and another Yongle bowl, from the collection of Donald S. Morrison, first sold in our New York rooms, 4^th June 1982, lot 214, and again, in our Hong Kong rooms, 17^th May 1988, lot 36.

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections from two European collections. 12 Juin 2008