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Bowl with Lotus Scrolls

Bowl with Lotus Scrolls

1500s

Description

Bowl such as this, with kinrande (gold-engraved) decoration over monochrome enamels, may have been made originally for export to Japan. On the base of this bowl are an underglaze blue inscription, reading "Fine vessel for the rich and honorable (fugui jiaqi)," as well as a modern registration mark "PDF A552" to indicate that it was formerly in the Sir Percival David collection in London. A similar kinrande bowl can be found in the Percival David Foundation, PDF A549.
  • ?–1968
    Sir Percival David [1892–1964], London, England
    October 15, 1968
    (Sotheby's, London, October 15, 1968 sale, lot no. 109)
    1968–?
    (John Sparks, London, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)
    ?–1989
    Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1989–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Arts of the Ming Dynasty: Catalogue of an Exhibition Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, November 15th to December 14th 1957. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1957. no. 111
    Sotheby's, London. Important Chinese Ceramics. October 15, 1968. Lot no. 109
    Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. Mentioned: no. 38
  • The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
    The Arts of the Ming Dynasty. The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, UK (November 15-December 14, 1957).
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