Lot Essay
Bowls of this pattern with Xuande marks from both public and private collections have been published. Comparable examples include: one illustrated by M. Tregear, Guide to Chinese Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum, pl. 30; one by R. L. Hobson in the Percival David Foundation Catalogue, pl. CXXXIV; one included in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 22. Compare also the example in the Pope collection included in the Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum, 1949, cat. no. 45; and one from an important Southeast Asian collection sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 17.