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A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED BOWL
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    HK$500,000 - HK$600,000
  • ($64,712 - $77,654)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE MING IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED BOWL
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

Finely potted with thin steep sides and a flared rim, resting on a slightly tapering foot, covered inside and out with a translucent egg-yolk yellow glaze
6 1/2 in. (16.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box


明正德 黃釉盌 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

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Provenance

A private collection, Kansai, Japan

Lot Notes

Yellow-glazed bowls of equally small size include two formerly from the collection of H. M. Knight, sold at Christie's London, 6 June 1988, lot 134; an example in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, illustrated in the Museum's Catalogue, no. 195; another illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, no. 699; and a bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1418.

For bowls of slightly larger size, see J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, pl. 155; R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1988, vol. II, no. 775, for a pair; and the bowl from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 53, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 685.

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