KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The present bowl is rare in its close adherence to its fifteenth century predecessors. The deep copper-red glaze and strongly everted shape of the bowl relate very closely to examples produced during the Xuande period, when Ming copper-red wares were perfected to an intense brilliant red tone known as xianhong. A bowl, dated to the Kangxi period, of similar form and size, but with a less everted mouth rim, was exhibited by the Oriental Ceramics Society, The World in Monochromes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2009 and illustrated in the catalogue, p. 76, no. 168.