the shallow wide bowl with rounded sides rising to everted rim glazed with an asparagus-green streaking along the sides and pooling in the center, stopping unevenly around the white-bodied foot.

Provenance: The collection was formed in China between the 1920s-50s.

Note: A green-glazed bowl of this form, from the Walter Hochstadter collection, was sold at Christie's New York, 20th September, 2001, lot 18. See also two bowls of this shape decorated with sancai glaze illustrated in Three-colour Glazed Pottery Kilns of the Tang Dynasty at Huangye, Beijing, 2000, pl. 51, nos. 2 and 7.