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拍品專文
The present lot is unique with its marks of a cyclical date and of the potter, and being a dated piece from the period. No other published example is known. The anhua decoration of dragons on white-glazed stembowl is fashioned after the Yongle prototype produced for imperial ceremonial use. Compare two Yongle examples, one bearing an anhua Yongle reign mark and in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, p. 98, fig. 3:1; and the other from the Tibetan Museum, illustrated in Treasures from Snow Mountains: Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics, Shanghai Museum, 2001, pl. 93, where two Ming period stembowl cases are included, one made of hemp fibres, pl. 95, the other of gilt copper, pl. 99.