Provenance: Passed down in Japan since medieval times, and thereafter in the collection of the Daikomyo-ji temple.

Note: For related bowls attributed to the Southern Song dynasty and excavated in Liaoning from the Jinyucun Hoard, now in the Liaoning Museum, see Song Yun: Sichuan Yao Cang Wenwu Jicui [The Charm of Song: Cultural Artefacts from Hoards in Sichuan], Beijing, 2006, pp. 30-33. See also a related bowl published in the Special Exhibition: Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan Yao, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Osaka, 1996, cat. no. 45; another example complete with its cover, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 546; and a third, formerly in the collection of Dr Carl Kempe, first sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2008, lot 530, and again in these rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 3693.

Sotheby's. Karamono: Heirlooms of Chinese Art from Medieval Japan, Hong Kong, 9 October 2023