Lot Essay
Bowls of this size and type have been published, one in the British Museum, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 61A; and another in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 769. Cf. also the bowl sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 713.