ARomance Among Blooming Roses II——The Meiyintang and Western Collectionof Five Dynasties Imperial Ceramics

5006 | Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORALS’ BOWL

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORALS’ BOWL

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Size: D20.7cm

Signed and dated: Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 600,000

PROVENANCE
The President Herbert Hoover(1874-1964) collection
The Mr.and Mrs.Allan Hoover collection
The Ira and Nancy Roger collection(no.292)
Sotheby’s NewYork,1990.127,Lot16
Xuande Six-Character Mark
The bowl was in conical shape with slightly convex sides and a tapering foot. Center of the interior was decorated with a floret within a double ring in a double ring at the rim. The exterior was painted in underglaze blue with flower scroll with large blooms and leaves. The base was inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double ring in underglaze blue.

ILLUSTRATED
Early Ming Wares from Chingtechen,A.D.Brankston 1938, pl.2, (Top Right)
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol.4, no.1711