A RARE CHINESE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND CONICAL BOWL

Of conical form, the bowl is strongly potted with wide flaring sides rising from a spreading foot to an everted rim. The interior is delicately painted with a central medallion enclosing a leafy spray of chrysanthemum, surrounded by six evenly spaced floral sprays in the cavetto, which are lotus, mallow, camelia, chrysanthemum, gardenia, and hibiscus, below a narrow band of floral sprigs at rim. The exterior is similarly painted, with a thin band of key fret to the underside of the everted rim and a band of cloud scroll encircling the foot, all against a bright lemon-yellow enamel ground, continuing onto the base around the underglaze-blue mark, save for the exterior of the foot covered with a green enamel.