YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)

Compare the present lot to a Guan vessel in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated by Li Huibing in Songdai Guan yao ciqi/Official Kiln Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Beijing, 2013, pl. 53, and another in the Taipei National Palace Museum, included in the exhibition Precious Morning Star: 12-14th Century Celadons in the Qing Court Collection, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2016, cat. no. IV-11. Also see a Guan lobed jardiniere dated to the Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty from the Collection of Mrs Alfred Clark (1890-1976), illustrated by Sir Percival David, Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko Ku Yao Lun. The Essential Criteria of Antiquities, New York, 1971, pl. 22d, and sold at Sotheby's London, 25 March 1975, lot 102, then again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 April 2019, lot 105.