A WHITE STONEWARE PRUNUS-FLOWER BOWL TANG/FIVE DYNASTIES

of metalware form, each of the five deep curved lobes springing from a short straight foot, covered overall in a white slip and an ivory-white glaze save for the footring revealing the fine white body

'HP' paper label to base.

 

Oriental Ceramic Society, 1940's, no.19.

'Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao', The Bulletin of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 25, 1953, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 27, fig. 22.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 326.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 531.

With the exception of light glaze rubbing and wear to the interior and light glaze scratches to the exterior, and knife nicks around the footring, the dish is in good overall condition.
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