CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, DATÉ DE L'ANNÉE CYCLIQUE XINMAO DU RÈGNE DE WANLI CORRESPONDANT À 1591

A few similar examples with the same pale celadon glaze and underglazed blue eight-character mark on the base are known. These include one from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, British Museum (PDF,A.523) ; another one from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. II:I80, p. 344; one from the Schiller Collection at the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery, object number N2647; one from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm with an inventory number ÖM-1977-0098, published in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, BMFEA, Stockholm, 1978; and the last from the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art which is illustrated in Monochrome Ceramics of Mind and Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, pl. 57, p. 63. See a closely-related pale celadon-glazed shallow bowl with the same mark, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 3104.