Lot Essay
Compare to a pair of similar Zhengde-marked yellow-enamelled bowls in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1988, vol. II, p. 448, no. 775; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, pl. 155; and a third from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 53, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 685.