Lot Essay
Very few bowls of this unusual design appear to have been published. Compare a similar bowl in the collection of Helen and Peter Lin, illustrated in the Smithsonian Institute catalogue, Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain - Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 101, no. 30; see also one sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 November 1977, lot 187; and another, 23 October 2005, lot 463.