finely potted with each of the six gently curved petal-shaped lobes springing from the short straight foot to the slightly everted rim, covered overall in a rich and thick soft grey glaze suffused with a matrix of dark grey and golden crackles

Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 171.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 390.

Note: It is rare to find 'Ge' bowls of this elegant fluted form, although a related piece is illustrated in the Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Ko Ware of the Sung Dynasty, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1962, pl. 41. See also a bowl with similar crackled glaze, from the Alfred Clark collection and included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Ju and Kuan Wares, London, 1952, cat.no. 83, sold in these rooms, 25th March 1975, lot 109; and one in the Baur Collection included The Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, pl. A98, inscribed with a eulogistic poem written in 1750 by the Qianlong Emperor, accompanied by two of his personal seals, on its base.