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Lot Essay
This is one of the most elegant bowl designs made at the imperial kilns in the Xuande reign. It is interesting to note that these bowls were so admired by the Qianlong emperor that he had close copies made at the imperial kilns during his reign.
Compare the bowl of similar type illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 147; another in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 176-7, no. 61; and one in the collection of the Shanghai Museum illustrated by Wang Qingzhang in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 88, no. 61.
Compare the bowl of similar type illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 147; another in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 176-7, no. 61; and one in the collection of the Shanghai Museum illustrated by Wang Qingzhang in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 88, no. 61.