A BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX' BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING |

the curved rounded sides rising from a domed base, painted to the exterior in bright cobalt-blue tones, depicting a pair of phoenix in flight amongst a composite floral meander, the interior similarly painted with a central medallion enclosing a single phoenix, below a frieze of four further phoenix each grasping a floral spray in its beak around the rim, the concave base with a six-character reign mark within a double circle

Sotheby's London, 14th December 1976, lot 110. 
P.C. Lu & Sons, Hong Kong, 1979.
Christie's New York, 20th September 2005, lot 257.

There is a tiny approx. 0.4 cm infilled flake to the inner rim at around 4 o’clock of the mark. There are minor frits/flake and surface wear that has been lightly polished along the rim and general surface scratches.
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