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# Blue and White Bowl with a Lotus Scroll, Ming Dynasty, Xuande Mark

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Blue and white porcelain bowl of the Ming dynasty, painted outside with a continuous lotus scroll and inside with a peony spray, the base with a Xuande mark.

**Period:** [Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)
**Reign mark:** [Xuande](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty-emperors/xuande-emperor/)
**Category:** [Ming Dynasty Porcelain](https://realrareantiques.com/product-category/antique-chinese-porcelain/ming-dynasty-porcelain/)
**Dimensions:** Diameter 18 cm · Height 8 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0124
**Availability:** Sold

## Description

A blue and white porcelain bowl with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim. The outside is painted with a continuous lotus scroll, the full blooms linked by leafy stems, above a ring of petal panels enclosing cloud scrolls round the foot. Inside, a peony spray with leafy branches fills a double-ring medallion, and the cavetto carries a leafy scroll linking six stylised flowers. The blue is a bright, strong cobalt.

The glazed base carries a six-character Xuande mark, 大明宣德年製 (*Da Ming Xuande nian zhi*), written in regular script in two columns of three, in underglaze blue within a double circle; the foot ring is unglazed and orange at the edge. A reign mark gives the name of a reign; on its own it does not date a piece. Our guide to [Chinese porcelain marks](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-porcelain-marks/) explains how marks are read.

This bowl has been sold; please ask us about similar pieces.

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