A FINELY PAINTED MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FIGURES' BOWL

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A FINELY PAINTED MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FIGURES' BOWL
CHENGHUA PERIOD (1465-1487)

The rounded sides rising to straight mouthrims, supported on a short splayed foot ring, painted with cobalt of bright blue tones, the exterior decorated with scholars dressed in voluminous robes, their hair swept under a headdress with ribbons billowing in the wind, walking in a landscape scene detailed with bamboo, flowering prunus and pine trees, attended by acolytes variously bearing a qin, flower sprays, and a hoe suspending a basket, all under scattered stylised clouds, the interior with a scholar seated on a mat observing a swan swimming beside an embankment within a double-circle border, repeated under the mouth rim
8 in. (22.3 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

The present bowl belongs to a group of unmarked examples of this same finely drawn figures-in-landscape design such as the bowl in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Pierson, Blue and White for China: Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection, London, 2004, p. 70, no. 27 (PDF B631).

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