Jiajing six-character mark and of the period Decorated to the exterior with two phoenix in flight, the long billowing tails extending around the bowl, amongst scrolling lotus and below a foliate band at the rim, the interior with a central phoenix medallion within a hatch pattern border. 29.5cm (11 5/8in) diam.
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Provenance: A Swiss private collection, and thence by descent
明嘉靖 青花穿蓮祥鳳圖盌 《大明嘉靖年製》款
For a closely related bowl see Canepa and Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate: the Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain p. 61, cat. no. III.1.2. where it is noted that an Imperial vase in the Huaihaitang collection bears comparable features.
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