Lot Essay
Jessica Harrison-Hall, in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 347-49, nos. 11:188-89 and 11:190-93, illustrates several brown-glazed white slip decorated vessels of different forms. Harrison-Hall notes that this decoration was introduced in the Wanli period, as shards of vessels of this decoration have been excavated in Zhushan in Jingdezhen dating to the late Ming dynasty.