A LARGE LATE MING BLUE-GLAZED BOWL - WANLI INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1620)

Heavily potted with deep rounded sides rising to a flared rim from a slightly spreading foot, covered inside and out with a deep cobalt blue glaze thinning to white around the rim and stopping neatly around the foot ring, the base glazed white. 12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) diam.  mate. Estimate: HK$200,000 - HK$300,000 ($25,750 - $38,625)

Provenance: A Japanese private collection

Lot Notes: A similar but slightly smaller example is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain (Beijing), Hong Kong, 1999, p. 79, fig. 72.

Another bowl, similar in size to the present example was sold at Christie's London, Chinese Monochrome Porcelain from the Collection of the late Professor E.T. Hall, C.B.E., 7 June 2004, lot 261.

Christie's Hong Kong. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. 27 May 2008