A fine blue and white Imperial ogee bowl decorated in the center with a full-faced flower-head medallion with overlapping petals encircled by four peaches and four stylized lotus blossom scrolls, enclosed around the well with the Bajixiang (eight Buddhist emblems), the reverse with a floral frieze of eight exotic blooms above a formal border of ruyi heads and upright leaves. This particular design in blue and white was probably meant to have the addition of doucai enamels as this design is well known in that motif. On the base written in kaishu script in underglaze blue is the mark and of the period of the Guangxu Emperor.
清代 Qing Dynasty, 光緒 Guangxu Period (1875-1908)
Diameter:  8" (20.3cm)
Condition: Good, star glaze fracture on base.
Please refer to item #BW-225 when inquiring.