A large Chinese Zhangzhou slip-decorated blue-ground bowl, Late Ming dynasty, decorated all in white

A large Chinese Zhangzhou slip-decorated blue-ground bowl, Late Ming dynasty, decorated all in white slip to the centre of the interior with a flowering stalk bearing three blossoms amidst feathery leaves, below alternating foliate sprays in the cavetto and a decorative border on the everted rim, on a soft blue ground which continues onto the exterior, 39.2cm diam.Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong in 1964 by the grandfather of the present ownerCf. Similar examples were sold by Christie's, Chinese Art from the Art Institute of Chicago Online, 2019, Lot 177; Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 2008, Lot 589.Compare the very similar bowl from the collection of Jacques Graeffe, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldsmith, Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, p. 261, pl. 281.Another similar example was lent by Zhangzhou Museum to Capital Museum China to exhibit in Sailing Far and Wide on the Sea, Exhibition of Treasures from the Maritime Silk Road, 2014.明晚期 漳州窯藍地飾堆白大盤來源：現藏家祖父於1964年購於香港。Please refer to department for condition report