A FAMILLE ROSE-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

A FAMILLE ROSE-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

With rounded sides that flare slightly at the rim, the bowl is decorated on the exterior with a continuous band of flowering lotus plants rising from a border of cresting waves above the foot, which is encircled by a narrow key-fret band. The interior is decorated in underglaze blue with a central medallion containing a lotus flower from which issue four large lotus leaves below a wide band of lotus scroll bearing similar leaves in the well.

6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam.