Lot 112. A yellow-glazed bowl, Hongzhi mark and period (1488-1505);  18.4cm., 7 1/2 in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 GBP (27,130 - 40,695 EUR). Lot sold 30,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's

delicately potted with steep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot and everting slightly at the rim, dressed overall in a brilliant egg-yolk yellow glaze, a six-character underglaze-blue mark at the base within double-circles.

Provenance: An English Private Collection.

Note: Deceptively simple in form and colour, yellow-glazed bowls represent one of the most successful porcelain wares produced during the Hongzhi period. A closely related bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 38; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelain], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 79; and a pair in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. 2, pl. 775.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Londres, 13 mai 2015, 11:00 AM