A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL
A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL

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A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Finely potted with thin steep sides and a flared rim, resting on a slightly tapering foot, covered inside and out with a translucent egg-yolk yellow glaze, the base with a transparent glaze of bluish tinge
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
A Japanese collection

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.

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