MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

A similar Longquan celadon bulb bowl, but decorated with a fu character in the interior, is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in The Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p. 65, no. 157. Another similar bulb bowl is illustrated in Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1979, pl. 179.