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Lot Essay
A similar bowl from the collection of David M. Menke, M.D. is illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, no. 58.
Bowls of this type have been excavated from the Guantai kiln site, Ci county, Hebei province, in the uppermost strata, which are dated to the early- to mid-fourteenth century. See 'Hebei sheng Ci xian Guantai Cizhou yao yizhi fajue jianbao', Wenwu, 1990:4, p. 16, fig. 36, no. 5 and fig. 37.
Bowls of this type have been excavated from the Guantai kiln site, Ci county, Hebei province, in the uppermost strata, which are dated to the early- to mid-fourteenth century. See 'Hebei sheng Ci xian Guantai Cizhou yao yizhi fajue jianbao', Wenwu, 1990:4, p. 16, fig. 36, no. 5 and fig. 37.