Lot Essay
Yellow-glazed bowls of equally small size include two formerly from the collection of H. M. Knight, the first sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 134, and the other in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, illustrated in the Museum's Catalogue, no. 195; another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, no. 699.
For bowls of slightly larger size, see J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, pl. 155; R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1988, vol. II, no. 775, for a pair; and the bowl from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 53, and again in these Rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 685.
For bowls of slightly larger size, see J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, pl. 155; R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1988, vol. II, no. 775, for a pair; and the bowl from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 53, and again in these Rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 685.