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581
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Blue and white 'hole in the bottom' bowl with hibiscus scroll Mind dynasty, Late 15th century
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Blue and white 'hole in the bottom' bowl with
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BATEA : 571
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bowl
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ceramic; porcelain; bowl; blue and white; Ming; floral; hibiscus; China;
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A blue and white bowl with recessed so-called 'hole in the bottom' base. The interior is painted with a stylized flower with swirling petals within two parallel lines with an outer band of overlapping trefoil lappets. The outside has an undulating hibiscus scroll with four flower heads and spikey leaves in groups of three.
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porcelain
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good
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white
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blue
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12.9 cm
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1480 = 1499
Production period
Ming
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China
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Excellent example of so-called hole-in-the-bottom (i.e. no footrim but recessed section in base) dish. Many poor examples of this type frequently with an unglazed single fish used to be dated 1500 (circa) and were found in the Philippines and elsewhere;These hole in the bottom dishes are now considered to start in the interregnum period (1436-1465) and continue on until the end of the 15th century at least. This is a particularly fine example with rare decoration for such a bowl.It is very similar to the decoration found on some of the Chenghua palace bowls which are known to date from the third phase of that reign (1481-1487). Indeed the quality is so good that it may have been made by an imperial potter during the period when the imperial Chenghua kilns may have been shut down following that emperor's death in 1487;
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