TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1630-1643

A similar bowl in the Butler Family Collection, decorated in the center with a leaf and stylized auspicious emblems, is illustrated by Barbara Harrisson in Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683, a Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, 1986, p. 66, no. 74, and by Maura Rinaldi in Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, London, 1989, p. 193, pl. 256.