YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

A similar bowl is 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. 71-3. For other bowls found in a Yuan dynasty hoard of Longquan celadons in Taojiang county, Hunan province, see Wenwu, 1987:9, pp. 21-2. See, also, the similar bowls recovered from a shipwreck off the Sinan coast of Korea dated to shortly after 1323, illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 15 top and bottom.