Four Chinese blue and white porcelain bowls 17th Century

each bowl of deep rounded form rising to a barbed everted rim, decorated on the exterior with alternating panels of birds and flowers, the interior with a central medallion depicting a bird perched on rockwork, surrounded by panels enclosing detached floral blooms

The Hatcher Collection; Christie's Amsterdam, 12th-13th June 1984.

The bowls are in good condition with the exception of glaze degradation due to sea water erosion, and one with a firing glaze bubble enclosing three short circa 1cm., firing lines to the interior, and minor glaze firing imperfections to all.
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