A yellow-glazed bowl, Mark and period of Zhengde. Photo: Sotheby's.

the deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to a gently everted rim, applied overall with a rich yellow glaze of deep even tone, the unglazed footring burnt orange around the inner edge, the white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double ring; 18.4 cm., 7 1/4  in. Estimation 400,000 — 600,000 HKD (40,239 - 60,359 EUR)

Provenance: Collection of E.T. Chow (by repute).
Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art, London, 2003.

A closely related bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is published in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 155; one from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold in these rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 53, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 685; and another was sold in our New York rooms, 23rd September 1995, lot 421. Bowls of this type, but of slightly smaller size, include one formerly from the collection of Lord Cunliffe, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 1418; and another sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 150. 

Sotheby's. Important Ming Porcelain from a Private Collection. Hong Kong | 08 oct. 2013. http://www.sothebys.com