A BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
XUANTONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1908-1911)
The bowl is decorated on the exterior with the Eight Trigrams withn roundels, interspersed with clouds and phoenixes above a band of crashing waves. The interior is decorated with a lotus-and-wave motif within double-circles below a band of diaper-pattern and lotuses. Together with a very small copper-red-decorated blue and white cup inscribed on the base with a Guangxu six-character mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1875-1908).
5 3/8 and 2 1/8 in. (13.7 and 5.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance
The Rende Zhai (House of Benevolent Learning) Collection, 1949-1970s, in the United States before 1990.