The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., P102f23.

Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., London.

Literature: Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics, London, 2003, cat. no. 49.

Note: Similar wares, excavated from the kiln site at Ciyaobu, are illustrated in Institute of Archaeology, CASS; Select Archaelogical Finds: Album to the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, nos. 1 and 4, p. 349.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art Online, including a Private Hong Kong Collection, Hong Kong, 2 July 2021