A large blue and white Ming-style 'eight Buddhist emblems' bowl

Qianlong seal mark and period

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮八吉祥紋大盌

《大清乾隆年製》款

the deep rounded sides resting on a straight foot, finely painted in 'heaped and piled' cobalt blue tones, with a band of beribboned 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' above a stylized lotus scroll and upright ruyi lappets, all between double-line borders at the rim and a wave border encircling the foot, the interior rim painted with a further border of crashing waves, the center with a beribboned double-vajra medallion, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Diameter 10 ? in., 26 cm

Bluett & Sons Ltd., London.

Canadian Private Collection, acquired from the above between the 1960s and 1980s, and thence by descent. 

來源

Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦

加拿大私人收藏，1960年代至1980年代購於上述處，此後家族傳承