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Lot Essay
As well as having a domestic purpose, bowls of this type were made for export, as evidenced by examples recovered from a shipwreck off the Korean coast, "probably on its way to Japan, in or shortly after AD 1323", illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 15 top and bottom.
Compare a similar bowl of smaller size illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 543, where the author mentions bowls of this type found in a Yuan dynasty tomb at Dongxi, Jianyang county, Sichuan province; see Wenwu, 1987:2, pp. 71-73. For other bowls found in a Yuan dynasty hoard of Longquan celadons in Taojiang county, Hunan province, see Wenwu, 1987:9, pp. 21-22.
Compare a similar bowl of smaller size illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 543, where the author mentions bowls of this type found in a Yuan dynasty tomb at Dongxi, Jianyang county, Sichuan province; see Wenwu, 1987:2, pp. 71-73. For other bowls found in a Yuan dynasty hoard of Longquan celadons in Taojiang county, Hunan province, see Wenwu, 1987:9, pp. 21-22.