Asian Art I - 20th May 2015
Lot 179
A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL JUNYAO NUMBERED NARCISSUS BOWL YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY The body heavily...
Estimate £20,000 - £30,000
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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, 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; see also p.257 for another dated to the Yuan/early Ming.