AFTERNOON SESSION FRIDAY 25 MARCH 2011 AT 2.00 PM PRECISELY (LOTS 1643-1835) VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A FINE AND RARE WHITE-GLAZED BOWL

HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)

Details

A FINE AND RARE WHITE-GLAZED BOWL
HONGZHI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1488-1505)
With deep rounded sides flaring slightly towards the rim, covered inside and out with a white glaze
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Professor E.T. Hall, C.B.E., no. 48.
The E.T. Hall Collection of Chinese Monochrome Porcelains; Christie's, London, 7 June 2004, lot 259.

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Lot Essay

Undecorated white-glazed Hongzhi-marked bowls appear to be quite rare. However, a bowl of the same size is illustrated by Lu Minghua in Mingdai Guanyao Ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, p. 147, fig. 3-73. A slightly smaller example (17 cm.) is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 114, no. 104. Another Hongzhi-marked white-glazed bowl of similar size and shape was sold in our London rooms, 16 November 1999, lot 202.

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