A large blue and white Ming style 'dice' bowl, Qing dynasty, Yongzhengs six character mark in a line and of the period (1723-35).
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The strongly potted bowl well painted around the exterior with an arching lotus scroll bearing six flower-heads, the foot edged with a band of classic scrolls, the rim with the reign mark within a rectangular cartouche reserved on a border of breaking waves. Diameter 29,5 cm.
Slightly polished.
Provenance
The Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). The collection was aquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo, from 1907 he was also accredited for Beijing.
Exhibitions
Deponerad på Östasiatiska museet t.o.m. 1973.
A similar bowl with a mixed floral scroll is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl 60: and another included in the 1978 Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y Chao Family Foundation, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no 82.
More information
Compare with the Ming Xuande prototype, a bowl included in An Exhibition of Blue-decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1949, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl 62.