Chinese porcelain blue and white shallow bowl

Reference

1365

A very rare late Ming Chinese porcelain blue and white shallow circular bowl painted on the exterior with four lanterns on lotus blooms, two with octagonal and two with circular bodies, each with beaded jewels pendant from a transverse bar, interspersed with music stone above clouds and ruyi-heads, twin fish and flying insects, the well of the interior with a rosette of eight flames emanating from a calyx within a double ring within a ruyi-head border at the rim
20.3cm diameter 
Four-character mark zhi lan zhai zhi (Studio of fragrant irises and orchids)
Wanli circa 1600
Condition: tiny chip and slightly rough rim
*From an old Dutch collection

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