A FINE AND VERY RARE EARLY MING TIANBAI STEM-BOWL
A FINE AND VERY RARE EARLY MING TIANBAI STEM-BOWL

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A FINE AND VERY RARE EARLY MING TIANBAI STEM-BOWL
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

The bowl is finely potted with deep rounded sides flaring at the rim and supported on a slightly splayed hollow stem base, covered overall with an even milky-white transparent glaze
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

There are a number of published examples of anhua-decorated Yongle stem-bowls, with or without marks. There appears to be no published examples of undecorated stem-bowls of the Yongle period, although undecorated tianbai or 'sweet white' wares do exist, as mentioned by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Forbidden City Press, 1993, p. 36. Evidence from excavation at Jingdezhen indicates that stem-bowls without decorations were produced, cf. Imperial Porcelains of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 84, where a similar stem-bowl bearing an anhua Yongle mark is illustrated, p. 85, no. 1.

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