A PAIR OF OCTAGONAL RETICULATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS, CIRCA 1640

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A PAIR OF OCTAGONAL RETICULATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS
CIRCA 1640
Each side is modelled with a variously open-worked shaped panel and is bordered by a blue and white ruyi band below and waves above.
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) diam.

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Porcelain with reticulated decoration was also known as linglong also known as 'delicate openwork’. Both the cutting and subsequent firing would have required great skill. Christiaan Jörg indicates that such bowls were mentioned in VOC (Dutch East India Company) records of 1643-1646, but were also made earlier in the Wanli Period (see Christiaan J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London, 1997, p. 82, no. 71).

For a pair of similar bowls, see J. Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 369, plates 12:43 and 12:44.