A Fine Blue and White Mark and Period 'Lotus' Bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722)

Ref: W915

A fine blue and white mark and period 'Lotus' bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722), finely potted with gently rounded sides rising from a short straight-cut foot, painted vibrant shades of underglaze cobalt blue with large stylised lotus flowers and seed pods amongst meandering scrolls and curling leaves, all above a band of overlapping petals encircling the base, decorated to the interior with a similar design below a narrow band of half-lotus heads encircling the rim, the central roundel with a large lotus head amongst scrolling foliage within a double circle, the base with a six-character Kangxi mark within a further double circle in underglaze blue.

Condition:

Rim chip with tiny short glaze line; two tiny frits

Notes:

Sold for USD 30,240 on 20 Sep 2024 Extremely small rim chip repaired minor fritting to the rim

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A closely related bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Chen Runmin, ed., Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Qing dynasty blue and white porcelains of the Shunzhi and Kangxi periods], Beijing, 2005, pl. 126. See also a similar pair of bowls from the Ohlmer collection, in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, pls 35-36.