Deep bowl-form, with a burnished foot rim.

Provenance: Collection of Col. Dean S. Hartley, Jr., USMC (1920-2010), by descent to the present owner. Col. Hartley was a scholar who published several articles on Asian art and, with his wife, Roth Hartley, collected Asian works of art from the mid-1950s until 2001.

It bears a Hartley's inventory number and three stickers around the foot, including a rectangular one, reading "Lent by," with a handwritten name, Rutherston, and a number; a round one, reading "CLR," with a handwritten number; and a rectangular one reading "New Zealand Chinese Art Exhibition 1936," with a handwritten no.

ASIAN WORKS OF ART FROM AVID COLLECTORS, The Estate of Mark S. Pratt, Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts