Lot Essay
No other yellow-glazed bowl of this shape appears to be published. However, a sacrificial-red-glazed bowl of identical shape, with a similar incised mark, was included in the special joint exhibition by the Urban Council, Hong Kong and the Jingdezhen Museum of Ceramic History, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Catalogue, 1989, no. 73, where it is mentioned that the form is derived from Islamic metalwork. One other white-glazed example is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei with anhua phoenix decoration is illustrated in their Special Exhibition of Xuande Porcelain, Catalogue, 1980, pl. 110.
A bowl of this shape with green dragons reserved on a yellow ground and a four-character Xuande mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in the Special Exhibition of Dragon Motif Porcelain, 1983, Catalogue, no. 24
Another Xuande-maked bowl of this shape and size decorated with carp swimming among water plants in white slip reserved on a blue ground from the collection of Sir Percival and Lady David was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Special Exhibition of The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, Catalogue, no. 128
Three Xuande stembowls with bowls of this unusual shape have been recorded. The first was illustrated by Conelius Osgood, Blue and White Porcelain: A Study of Form, pl. 45, lower left; the second by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 9B, and by Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 30B; the last was sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1977, lot 85
A bowl of this shape with green dragons reserved on a yellow ground and a four-character Xuande mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in the Special Exhibition of Dragon Motif Porcelain, 1983, Catalogue, no. 24
Another Xuande-maked bowl of this shape and size decorated with carp swimming among water plants in white slip reserved on a blue ground from the collection of Sir Percival and Lady David was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Special Exhibition of The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, Catalogue, no. 128
Three Xuande stembowls with bowls of this unusual shape have been recorded. The first was illustrated by Conelius Osgood, Blue and White Porcelain: A Study of Form, pl. 45, lower left; the second by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 9B, and by Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 30B; the last was sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1977, lot 85