R35,000 - R55,000
R42,000
A CHINESE WHITE SLIP-DECORATED BLUE GROUND "CHRYSANTHEMUM" SWATOW, ZHANGZHOU, BOWL, MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD, 1572 - 1620
The deep bowl painted to the centre with three chrysanthemums amongst feathery foliage beneath a full moon and clouds, the cavetto painted with gnarled branches issuing a multitude of blossoms amongst strap-shaped leaves divided by lotus blooms, the rim with further blossoms amongst scrolling tendrils, the raised white slip reserved on a lavender-blue ground, the overglaze with brown striations, extensive fritting, discoloured hairline crack, glaze impurities
41cm dimeter
cf. Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 19 March 2008, Lot 589, New York
Lot Essay:
A very similar dish is in the British Museum (see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, p. 347, no. 11:187); and a slightly smaller dish is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 11, fig. 100.
Also compare a bowl from the collection of Jacques Graeffe, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldsmith, Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, p. 261, pl. 281.
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