Rare Transitional Blue and White Porcelain Bowl c.1640.
A rare Transitional porcelain bowl or cup, Chongzhen c.1640. The thickly potted elliptic form vessel has an unglazed base and the rim is also unglazed. The decoration, using high quality vivid tones of cobalt oxide is of birds flying among bamboo.
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- Condition
- Broken in half and neatly restuck.
- Size
- Diameter : 10 cm (4 inches)
- Provenance
- The Roy Davids Collection.
- Stock number
- 24606
- References
- For a Transitional Porcelain wine cup of this rare form see : Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White - Wan Li to K'ang Hsi (S.Marchant and Son, 120 Kensington Church Street, London) plate 51.
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