YONGLE PERIOD (1403 - 1425)

A very similar bowl, from the Falk Collection, was sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 132. The incised and molded decoration on both of these bowls is closely linked to blue and white porcelain bowls of the Yongle period, such as the example from the Eli Lilly Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein in the exhibition catalogue, Ming Porcelains, A Retrospective, 1970, p. 33, no. 5, where one can clearly see the interior decoration, which is not as easily discernable in the anhua decoration of the present or the Falk bowls. According to the author, the blue and white example does not have a chrysanthemum sprig in the center.