Lot 10 A Fine Persimmon-Glazed Bowl, Mark and Period of Jiajing (1522-1566); 13.9 cm, 5 1/2 in. Estimate 1,800,000-2,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 2,180,000 HKD (280,086 USD). Photo Sotheby's

the deep rounded sides below a slightly flared rim supported by a short straight foot, covered overall with a coffee-brown glaze with a metallic lustre except for the base glazed white and inscribed with a six-character underglaze-blue reign mark within double rings.

Provenance: Probably Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 725.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 704.

Note:For a similar bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, see Minji meihin zuroku. Kaiseiy, Ryukeiy, Manrekiy [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains. Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli wares], Tokyo, 1978, pl. 35; a related bowl is also in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 56..

Sotheby's. The Meiyintang Collection, Part II - An Important Selection of Chinese Porcelains, Hong Kong 5 october 2011