YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

Compare a similar example from the Falk Collection illustrated in H. D. Ling and E. T. Chow, Collections of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, Hong Kong, 1950, vol. II, no. 86, pp. 64-5; and in M. Komor, Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, New York, 1951, no. 23, subsequently sold at Christie's New York, 20th September 2001, lot 133; and one, possibly from the Kenneth Malcome Collection, exhibited in the Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, 1948, Catalogue no. 108, sold at Christie's London, 17 June 2003, lot 18. Compare also the similar bowl from the Clark Collection, included in the London Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9, and later sold in Sotheby's London, 26th June 1973, lot 247. An example from the E.T. Hall Collection was sold at Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 268.