Lot 408. A white-glazed stem bowl, Ming dynasty, 16th century. Height 4 3/4  in., 12.1 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD. © Sotheby's 2018

thinly potted, the steep rounded sides rising from a hollow spreading foot to a flared lipped rim, applied with an even white glaze save the foot ring, wood stand (2). 

From the Gerson and Judith Leiber Collection. 

Provenance: Mathias Komor, New York.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Note: Compare a similar example from the Carl Kempe collection, published in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 683, and sold in our London rooms 5th November 2008, lot 579.