Chinese Chenghua Cunliffe Musk Mallow Palace Bowl. Sublime Blue and White Porcelain Palace Bowl. Chenghua Period Underglaze Base Mark. A Revered type and most delicate feast for the senses. Elegantly potted with smooth rounded sides barely flaring at the rim. Finely painted in muted washes of cobalt blue accented with sharp outlines of a deepr hue. The exterior with a musk mallow scroll undulating gently around the sides issuing four luscious blooms with tender flaring petals, interspersed with star shaped leaves, their edges characteristically serrated, each bloom with a leaf daintily tucked and partially concealed behind, the meander of alternating flowers and leaves unpredictably syncopated with the sudden burst of a bud and its two leaves, as though permeated with life. All between doubles lines at the rim and foot. The interior with a central medallion enclosing a single stylised flower head within a double circle, encircled by a musk mallow meander similar to that on the exterior barring some refined mutation, all beneath a double line border, the body thinly veiled in a most sensual glaze. Height 2.25" x Diameter 6" A Similar piece was Featured and sold at Sotheby's 40 Years in Asia Sale Hong Kong October 2013. An Entire Hardcover Catalog deducated to that bowl is Included.