A CHINESE IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE 'PALACE' BOWL

SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722

The U-shaped bowl rising from a gently tapering foot to an everted rim, painted to the exterior with six lotus flowerheads on a continuous scrolling branch, with a band of lappets encircling the foot, the well decorated with a medallion enclosing a single lotus bloom amidst stylised leaves, 16.2cm.

Provenance: sold at Sotheby's New York on 22nd March 1995, lot 283.

Cf. Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, book 1, p.56, pl.12 for a similar bowl; see also W Qian, Tianwuguan Cang Ci, vol.1, pp.138-139 for another example; see also P Y K Lam and X Cheng, Qing Imperial Porcelain, no.19 for another related piece.