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Lot Essay
The bowl is potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to a flared mouth, decorated on the exterior with peony scrolls below a key-fret border, the interior medallion is painted with a leafy peony spray, encircled by a scroll of chrysanthemum blooms.
Compare with a nearly identical bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reigns of Hongwu and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2015, no.7; and one decorated with the same pattern is preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Mingdaichunian Ciqitezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1982, no.51; and a larger example published in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 730, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 3647.
Compare with a nearly identical bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reigns of Hongwu and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2015, no.7; and one decorated with the same pattern is preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Mingdaichunian Ciqitezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1982, no.51; and a larger example published in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 730, later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 3647.