Description

Dimensions: 10.4cm diameter

Provenance:

– Collection of R.W. Brandt by 1923
– Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark
– Sotheby’s London, 24th March 1953, lot 60
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1953
– Collection Charles J. Aron
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1963
– Collection of Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus, 1963
– Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980s

Exhibited:
“Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties”, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1950, no. 119
“The Arts of the Ming Dynasty”, Oriental Ceramic Society London 15th November – 14th December 1957, no. 219. (Lent by C. J. Aron)

Literature:
R.L. Hobson, The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, New York, 1923, pp. 116-117, pl. 6, fig. 2.
Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1970, pl. 140 and p. 485.
Roy Davids & Dominic Jellinek, Provenance, England, 2011, p. 50.

The rare bowl delicately painted on the exterior in iron red, turquoise and green on a iron-red ground. The four reserves showing pheasants and foliage. The interior executed in underglaze blue with a central medallion painted with a small water bird amid lotus flowers, all enclosed by double lines with a diaper band around the rim. The later added silver gilt mounts date to the late 16th or early 17th century, and are possibly made in Augsburg or Nuremberg, Germany.

£33,000