明 萬福攸同款 青花五彩金欄手瓔珞紋碗
thinly potted on a slightly tapering foot, rising to rounded sides and gently everted rim, the exterior with four medallions separated by beaded jewel strings, tassels, and flower heads in red, green, yellow and turquoise enamel, the interior painted in underglaze blue with a crane before plants within double circles, the base inscribed further with underglaze blue with a four-character 'Wan Fu You Tong' (ten thousand happiness gathered upon them) mark
Provenance: Private English collection, Norfolk. The base with a circular label 'Geoffrey Walters London SW3 4PW' over stuck with a handwritten label 'HMEC 729' indicating it previously was in the Helen Espir collection
Note: A closely comparable example, dated to the mid-16th century, is in The Art Gallery of NSW, Australia, accession number '63.1984'; also compare with two similarly decorated bowls, though with different marks, dated to the Jiajing period, in the British Museum, accession number 'Franks.483.+' and 'PDF.762'; and two more examples, one with the same mark offered here, both dated to the Jiajing period, which were offered in Ethereal Taipei, 24 April 2021, lot 7005 and 7006