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# Blue and White Bowl with Fish above Waves, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Mark

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Blue and white porcelain bowl painted with fish leaping above waves among cloud scrolls, Ming dynasty, the glazed base with a Chenghua mark.

**Period:** [Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)
**Reign mark:** [Chenghua](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty-emperors/chenghua-emperor/)
**Category:** [Ming Dynasty Porcelain](https://realrareantiques.com/product-category/antique-chinese-porcelain/ming-dynasty-porcelain/)
**Dimensions:** Height 7 cm · Diameter 12 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0118
**Availability:** Sold

## Description

A small [blue and white](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-blue-and-white-porcelain/) porcelain bowl with deep rounded sides on a short foot. The outside is painted with fish leaping above crested waves, alternating with large cloud scrolls, between double lines at the rim and the foot. Inside, a double line circles the rim, and a medallion in the centre shows a further fish among waves. The blue is a soft, slightly greyish tone on a pale grey-white glaze.

The glazed base carries a six-character Chenghua mark, 大明成化年製 (*Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi*), written in regular script in two columns of three, in underglaze blue within a double circle; the edge of the foot ring has fired to a pale orange. 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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