A blue and white lobed 'fruit and flower' bowl, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, Xuande mark | 清康熙 青花折枝花果紋葵口碗 《大明宣德年製》仿款
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May 7, 03:37 AM GMT
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20,000 - 40,000 HKD
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the conical sides rising from short foot to a six-lobed lobed rim, the interior painted with a medallion enclosing a flowering and fruiting peach branch, surrounded by six floralꦓ sprigs, all between a border of floral sprigs encircling the inner rim, the exterior with six fruiting sprays above six flo🍰ral sprays, all above a classical scroll band around the foot, the base inscribed with an apocryphal Xuande mark, Japanese wood box
22.7 cm
Fruit ജand flower sprays symbolising prosperity were popular designs of the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Bowls of this lobed form appear to be specific to the Xuand✤e reign (1426-1435) and became part of the classic repertoire of the official kilns. The shape is derived from conical bowls with six delicate rim lobes glazed in monochrome white, which had been produced at Jingdezhen during the Song dynasty (960-1279). Tailored to the imperial taste, products of the Xuande workshops were exquisitely finished and inscribed with the imperial reign mark. Bowls of this design continued to be admired in the subsequent centuries, and it was frequently copied in the Kangxi (1662-1722) and Yongzheng (1723-1735) periods.
A close copy of the early Ming dynasty design, attributed to the Kangxi period, is preserved in the Beijing Palace Museum collection and illustrated in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Ming chu qinghua ci/Early Ming blue-and-white porcelain in the Palace Museum, vol. 🔯2, Beijing, 2002, pl. 179, together with a Xuande prototyp🍨e from the Qing Court Collection, pl. 146.