A similar example is illustrated in An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Catalogue, no. 76; cf. comparable examples illustrated by Hobson, Catalogue of the David Collection, pl. 134; another by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 13; and another by Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 47, 29, 321. This type of bowl is also illustrated by T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collection in the Near East, vol.III, no.A56. Larger examples of the same fine bowls are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelains, Catalogue, no.28, which has a different pattern at the foot, and in the Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, 1975, Catalogue, no.11. The very comparable example of this type of bowl was previously in the collection of Mrs Alfred Clark, sold in London, 1974, Catalogue, no.17. Another example was sold in these Rooms, 10 December 1990, Lot 168

The very slight but significant development in technical potting skill, tone of the manganese-rich cobalt, and additional competence in applying designs onto the ogee surfaces of deep bowls, can be well seen by comparing the present Yongle lot with the very slightly later Xuande reign-marked bowls of the type illustrated in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol.I, no.22,