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[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A BLUE & WHITE FRUIT & FLOWER BOWL.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Rugs & Carpets Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:1,000,000.00 - 1,500,000.00 USD
[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A BLUE & WHITE FRUIT & FLOWER BOWL.
WIDTH 22.5/CM HEIGHT 8.5/CM (Lot 07, Sotheby's New York, March 14, 2017) Six subtle lobes, the interior painted in dark tones of underglaze with a medialion containing a fruiting and flowering peach spray within a triple circle, surrounded by six floral sprays of lotus, camellia, chrysanthemum and hollyhock, below a border of smaller detached floral sprays within the lines, the exterior painted with fruiting branches of lychee, pomegranate, loquat, cherry and peach above smaller floral sprays, the short footrim with a band of classic scroll, the base with the six-character mark within a double circle.

Provenance : Collection of a Japanese Pharmaceutical Company.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10 th April 2006, lot 1660.

Note : Conical bowls of this fruit-and-flower design can be counted among the most successful blue and white bowl patterns of the early Ming dynasty and belong to the classic repertoire of the Xuande (1426-35) imperial kilns. They reflect the newly awakened interest of the Chinese in fine blue and white porcelains. Yongle (1403-24) is one of the world's most popular and well-known products. imperial reign mark.