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

Blue and white porcelain bowl painted outside with a lotus scroll and inside with a peony medallion, Ming dynasty, 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:** Height 8.1 cm · Width 17.3 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0159
**Availability:** Available

## Description

A [blue and white](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-blue-and-white-porcelain/) porcelain bowl with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim. The outside is painted with a continuous lotus scroll, the full blossoms linked by curling, leafy stems, above a band of petal panels round the foot, each enclosing a cloud motif. Inside, a blue line circles the rim and the walls are filled with scrolling stems and leaves round a double-ring medallion, which frames a single large peony with leaves spreading behind it. The blue is deep, with darker spots where the cobalt gathered.

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, inside an unglazed foot ring. A reign mark gives the name of a reign; on its own it does not date a piece. Our guide to [Ming reign marks](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-reign-marks/) explains how they are read. The glaze shows a fine crackle.

**Learn more:** [The Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/) · [Xuande Emperor](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty-emperors/xuande-emperor/)

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