A PAIR OF CLOISONNE ENAMEL BOWLS MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY

each with deep rounded sides rising from a sightly splayed foot to an everted rim, the exterior enameled with a continuous lotus scroll, the blooms alternately enameled in red, white, blue and yellow, all reserved against a turquoise-blue ground, above a border of lappets and ruyi-shaped clouds at the foot and below a ruyi-head border at the rim (2)