Lot 194b. A brown-glazed bulb bowl on three feet, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century. Estimate: 2,500 EUR - 3,000 EUR. Photo Kunsthaus Lempertz

A brown-glazed bulb bowl on three feet, decorated in slip to the exterior with the "Three Friends of Winter" (suihan sanyou) bamboo, prunus and pine. Apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark. 16th/17th century. Diameter 16.7 cm

Provenance: Private collection, Southern Germany
Dr Karl Scheid collection
Ludwig Bock collection, sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 10.3.1972, lot 304
Lempertz, Cologne, 7.12.2013, lot 459
Private collection, Rhineland