Lot description
YONGLE PERIOD (1402-1425) Well potted with deep, slightly inturned sides rising to a flared rim, finely painted in brilliant cobalt-blue with extensive 'heaping and piling', on the flat base of the interior with a central floret enclosed within a roundel from which radiates six ruyi-shaped petals divided by foliate sprigs, all within a classic-scroll border, the steep well encircled by a composite floral scroll bearing six blossoms, including lotus, gardenia, chrysanthemum, camellia, peony and hibiscus, the undulating stem grown with leaves corresponding to each flower, all below a band of crashing waves at the rim, the exterior with a similar floral scroll with eight blossoms, all within double-line borders and below detached floral sprays, the unglazed base revealing the smooth white ware with a light speckling of orange 10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) diam., box
