Asian Art I - 21st May 2014
Lot 279
A rare Chinese Imperial junyao numbered narcissus bowl Yuan/early Ming dynasty
Estimate £40,000 - £60,000
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Description
A rare Chinese Imperial junyao numbered narcissus bowl Yuan/early Ming dynasty, the body heavily potted, moulded to the exterior beneath the lipped rim with a band containing twenty-one raised 'nail head' studs, with another row to the base above three short ruyi-shaped feet, decorated with a finely mottled pale blue and greyish-purple glaze, the base incised er, two, a paper label for L. Wannieck Paris, 25cm.
Provenance: the collection of Andrew Williams Esq., Oxfordshire.
Cf. Selection of Jun Ware, the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, p.231, for a closely related example dated to the Song dynasty. And also, p.257 for another dated to the Yuan/early Ming.