Lot Essay
Examples of this type and size of bowl exist in a number of museum collections, including the one illustrated by Hayashiya in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1982, no. 94. Another is illustrated by Andre Leith in the Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959, no. 85. Refer also to the bowl included in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, p. 176, no. 738
For a discussion by Robert Mowry of the technique of leaf decoration on these bowls refer to the Catalogue of the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996, pp. 259-261
For a discussion by Robert Mowry of the technique of leaf decoration on these bowls refer to the Catalogue of the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996, pp. 259-261