AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOWL STAND MING DYNASTY HONGWU PERIOD, YONGLE AND XUANDE MARKS the finely carved vessel of robust construction, of globular form with deep rounded sides collared with a seven-lobed dish, supported on a flared foot, deeply carved through layers of cinnabar lacquer to a buff-coloured ground with six blossoming flowers and corresponding leaves, including gardenia, peony, pomegranate, chrysanthemum, camellia and hibiscus, beneath a plain band on the incurved rim, all repeated on the top and underside of the dish and around the foot, the details of the stamen intricately carved and the leaves engraved with veins, the interior of the bowl and the foot lacquered in plain dark brown, the foot inscribed vertically with an incised and gilded six-character Xuande mark, superimposed on an erased perpendicular Yongle mark 21.4 cm., 8 3/8 in.
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOWL STAND MING DYNASTY HONGWU PERIOD, YONGLE AND XUANDE MARKS the finely carved vessel of robust construction, of globular form with deep rounded sides collared with a seven-lobed dish, supported on a flared foot, deeply carved through layers of cinnabar lacquer to a buff-coloured ground with six blossoming flowers and corresponding leaves, including gardenia, peony, pomegranate, chrysanthemum, camellia and hibiscus, beneath a plain band on the incurved rim, all repeated on the top and underside of the dish and around the foot, the details of the stamen intricately carved and the leaves engraved with veins, the interior of the bowl and the foot lacquered in plain dark brown, the foot inscribed vertically with an incised and gilded six-character Xuande mark, superimposed on an erased perpendicular Yongle mark 21.4 cm., 8 3/8 in.
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