YongleThe bowl with deep sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, finely painted on the exterior in dark blue tones with a band of elongated lotus petals below a key-fret band around the rim, the interior with a central spray of fruiting loquat within double circles, surrounded by leafy scrolls of alternating blossoming camellias and chrysanthemum flowerheads and a band of breaking waves at the rim, the deep tones of cobalt with extensive 'heaping and piling'.21cm (8 2/8in) diam.