清雍正 青花蓮花紋饅頭心盌一對

each with rounded sides and countersunk base, the interior painted with a quatrefoil on the convex center encircled by a band of scrolling flowers and formal interlaced scrollwork below cresting waves within double lines, the exterior rim with a band of formal lotus scroll above pendent spearheads and overlapping petals around the base (2)

One has two hairline cracks each approximately 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) long running from the rim and scattered minor iron spots. The other has a small chip and burst air bubble to the foot.
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The bowls are modeled after a fifteenth century prototype. For a similarly decorated example from the Xuande period  in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan see  Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, pp. 296-7, no. 121.