A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE HEXAFOIL BOWL

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE HEXAFOIL BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The conical bowl with flared sides rises to a lobed rim and is decorated on the interior with a central medallion of a fruiting and flowering peach branch below six flowers in the well and a narrow band of flower sprigs at the rim. The exterior is decorated with an upper register of six different fruiting and flowering branches above a lower register of six different flowers. The foot is encircled by a band of classic scroll.
8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

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Lot Essay

The current bowl is based on early Ming dynasty Xuande-period prototypes. A blue and white bowl with very similar design and bearing a Xuande mark, but dating to the Kangxi period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Ming Chu Qinghuaci (Early Ming Blue and White Ceramics in the Palace Museum Collection), vol. 2, Beijing, 2002, pp. 334-35, no. 179. Also illustrated, pp. 278-79, no. 146, is the Xuande prototype for this bowl.

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