Provenance: Property from a San Francisco Estate.

Note: The spur marks on the floor of the well to the bowl - used to support a smaller object during firing- also appear on the bowl with a cover of similar size and glaze from the Falk Collection, discussed by Robert D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black- Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 39, pp. 144-145. The Falk Collection bowl was sold at Christie's, New York sale 16 October 2001, lot 9822. See also the black and russet-splashed bowl and cover of smaller size sold at Christie's, New York sale, 13-14 September 2018, lot 15706.

Bonhams. Fine Asian Works of Art, San Francisco, 25 Jun 2019, 10:00 PDT