明十七世紀 黃地素三彩團獅花卉紋盌

the deep rounded sides resting on a short foot, the exterior decorated in green and aubergine enamels and outlined in black with three lion roundels interspersed with stylised ruyi-shaped clouds and auspicious emblems with small areas left in white, the interior similarly enamelled in green and aubergine with sprays of lotus, camellia and hydrangea, all reserved against a yellow ground, the white base inscribed in underglaze-blue with an apocryphal six-character Jiajing mark within a double-circle

There is a hairline of approx. 3.3 cm to the interior from the mouthrim, but it does not pass through to the exterior. The rim also has a few shallow glaze flakes (max. approx. 0.3 cm). One lion's head on the exterior has been slightly over-fired resulting in bubbled enamels. There are two short firing cracks to the footring (longest approx. 1 cm, partially covered by enamels). The bowl also has some potting and firing imperfections, including minor kiln grits, trapped and burst air bubbles, as well as expected surface scratches, especially to the interior.
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See another related 17th-century bowl with the same design and a Jiajing mark in the Baur Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 122 [A252].