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Lot Essay
Two bowls of identical size and with very similar decoration are illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, A 540 and 541.
The decoration is based on a 16th century prototype, such as the Jiajing-marked example from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1966, pl. 7, where the subject of the design is identified as "children playing in a garden". Other comparable examples include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, A 166; another formerly in the Constantinidi Collection is illustrated in S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXIX.I; and a third is included by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1966, p. 247, no. 842.
The decoration is based on a 16th century prototype, such as the Jiajing-marked example from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1966, pl. 7, where the subject of the design is identified as "children playing in a garden". Other comparable examples include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, A 166; another formerly in the Constantinidi Collection is illustrated in S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXIX.I; and a third is included by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1966, p. 247, no. 842.