Lot 56. A rare Chinese imperial junyao numbered 'narcissus' bowl, Yuan-Early Ming dynasty. Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000. Hammer Price £ 30,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis

The body heavily potted, moulded to the exterior beneath the lipped rim with a band containing twenty-one raised 'nail head' studs, with another row to the base above three short ruyi-shaped feet, decorated with a finely mottled pale blue and greyish-purple glaze, the base incised er (two), 25cm.

Provenance: the collection of Andrew Williams Esq., Oxfordshire.

Cf. Selection of Jun Ware, the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, p.231, for a closely related example dated to the Song dynasty; see also p.257 for another dated to the Yuan/early Ming.

Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May 2017