CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

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A RARE PAIR OF RETICULATED WHITE BOWLS
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The decoration incorporates five characters below the rim which read you tian yong you yu (there is a heaven which has abundance).
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm) diam. each

Provenance

Nagatani, December 1959.
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.
Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from a American Private Collection; Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 187.

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Lot Essay

For an example of a similar bowl, probably with character roundels, see Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXVII, no. lB. A related example with floral medallions, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge, was exhibited in Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 27 October-18 December 1948, Catalogue, no. 105. See, also, the cup from the Walters Collection, illustrated by S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, New York, 1980, (republished from an 1896 edition), p. 268, fig. 322.

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