A large and rare yellow-glazed bowl, Jiajing mark and period. Photo Sotheby's

robustly potted with deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a flared rim, covered overall in a rich egg-yolk yellow glaze stopping at the foot, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle; 37.3cm., 14 3/4 in. Estimation 130,000 — 180,000 GBP 

Jiajing yellow-glazed bowls of this large size are extremely rare and only one other example appears to have been published, from the collections of H.R.N. Norton and Ira and Nancy Koger, published in J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 75, and sold at Christie’s New York, 19^th September 2006, lot 247. A slightly smaller example measuring 30.3cm in diameter from the Qing Court collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 43.