Beschreibung:

A SUPERB AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot and flaring delicately at the rim, superbly painted overall in meticulous detail in vivid tones of cobalt-blue with characteristic 'heaping and piling', the interior decorated in the centre with a stylised Indian lotus flower, encircled by a frieze of Tibetan lança characters, each resting on a lotus bloom enclosed by slender, undulating stems with curled leaves, all beneath a tightly drawn classic scroll at the rim, the exterior decorated with a composite floral scroll above an elaborate trefoil band around the base and below interlaced ruyi heads at the rim, the base inscribed with the six-character mark within double circles 19 CM., 7 1/2 IN.