A FINELY PAINTED AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED BOWL MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH CENTURY the fifteen-lobed, rounded sides rising gradually from a low wedge-cut footring to a scalloped mouth, painted in poweful tones of cobalt-blue on the exterior with two garden scenes divided by thick, billowing clouds, one with a two-tiered pavilion opening onto the balustaded garden with twin plantain trees rising amid rocks and shrubs, the other similarly decorated, with rolling clouds in the far distance, between a keyfret border and a band of crashing waves, the slightly sunken interior with a scene of a scholar seated on a grassy shore contemplating by a splashing waterfall within a double-circle, the sides with a continuous frieze of lush trees interspersed with shrubs, including bamboo, pine, plantain below the rim with a diaper band, the countersunk base glazed white 29.5cm., 11 5/8 in.
A FINELY PAINTED AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED BOWL MING DYNASTY, MID-15TH CENTURY the fifteen-lobed, rounded sides rising gradually from a low wedge-cut footring to a scalloped mouth, painted in poweful tones of cobalt-blue on the exterior with two garden scenes divided by thick, billowing clouds, one with a two-tiered pavilion opening onto the balustaded garden with twin plantain trees rising amid rocks and shrubs, the other similarly decorated, with rolling clouds in the far distance, between a keyfret border and a band of crashing waves, the slightly sunken interior with a scene of a scholar seated on a grassy shore contemplating by a splashing waterfall within a double-circle, the sides with a continuous frieze of lush trees interspersed with shrubs, including bamboo, pine, plantain below the rim with a diaper band, the countersunk base glazed white 29.5cm., 11 5/8 in.
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