Rare Chinese Blue and White Bowl with Cranes and Lotus

A very rare Chinese blue and white bowl, Kangxi, 1622-1722,…
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A very rare Chinese blue and white bowl, Kangxi, 1622-1722, exceptionally well painted with a continuous scene of cranes in a lotus pond, the interior with a central lotus roundel and stylised floral band at the rim, a 'spoked wheel' mark to base. 9.8 cm high, 19.8 cm diameter. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, exhibition 30/1/1988, cat No. 5, Reference, Stephen Bushell, 'Oriental Ceramic Art, The Walters Collection', New York, October 1980, first published 1896, Plate LXV111; 'An identical mark occurs on a brilliant hawthorn-spray plate in the collection, also dating from the same period'., W.G. Gulland also mentions a plate with the same mark in the Salting collection

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  • Roundel - A roundel is a circular disk, medallion or border on a plate or dish, on an object of furniture. A plate or dish will often have a central circular bordered decoration, termed a roundel. In furniture the word is often used instead of the word 'patera' to describe a turned circular decoration. In recent times use of the word has expanded to encompass any circular area on an object.

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