Lot Essay
For another bowl with this rare leaf design, cf. the example in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 1, pl. 94; another, designated an Important Art Object, is in the Gotoh Art Museum, Japan and is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 668; one more example was included in the Traveling Exhbition Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, Catalogue, 1992, no. 51