A rare antique Chinese blue and white conical herbaceous peony bowl, Xuande mark and of period, Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). The bowl is finely potted with wide flaring sides in deep tone of cobalt blue accented with heaping and piling, the exterior painted with continuous six large herbaceous peony blossoms inter-connected with leafy scrolls under a single line fillet at the rim, and above two rows of overlapping petals and a single blue line encircling the foot, the interior painted w...ith mallow petals with double blues lines at the center and a single blue line at the rim, the base inscribed six character Xuande reign mark within double rings in under-glazed blue. Size: 8" in diameter Condition: Damaged in pieces, re-glued and mounted