Two blue and white bowls


Mid Ming dynastyEach somewhat thickly potted and glazed on all surfaces except the foot pad: the first painted to the interior with a triangular arrangement of spirals rising from the larger spiral flower head roundel across the floor of the well, the spirals repeated on the exterior walls between lotus buds and flowers issuing from leafy stems (chip); the second painted to the interior with a flower-filled leaf reserves rising from a scroll-tailed dragon centering the well, the exterior encircled with a floral diaper band above intertwined floral arabesques (repaired and retouched).6in (15.3cm) diameters
|A bowl with extensive spiral filled decoration on the interior and exterior walls very similar to the first bowl in the lot was ascribed to the late 15th century in the catalogue Chinese Ceramics in the National Museum of Korea (2007), no. 196, p. 303 and p. 472. For a bowl with a formal flower diaper band and graceful floral arabesque design on the exterior walls similar to the second bowl in this lot, see S. T. Yeo and Jean Martin, Chinese Blue & White Ceramics (Singapore, Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, 1978), p. 140-141, no. 77 and Plate 45, as Middle Ming.