Of rounded conical form, the interior well carved with a single floral spray, surrounded by combed waves in an encircling band below an incised line, with a grooved band below the rim on the exterior, covered overall with an olive-green glaze, the unglazed foot burnt brown in the firing, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection

Exhibited: Gotoh Museum, Tokyo

Note: See a bowl with identical carved decoration, in the Robert Barron Collection, illustrated by L. Rotondo-McCord, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, pp. 60-1, no. 15; and another sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2006, lot 216.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1 June 2011, Convention Hall