A FINE IMPERIAL YELLOW BOWL ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD

the rounded sides rising from an inclined foot to a flared rim, covered overall with an even deep yellow glaze, the base with a transparent glaze of bluish tinge

Collection of Thomas English Cody (1889-1948), the great nephew of 'Buffalo Bill' Cody.

The bowl is in very good condition with the exception of glaze scratches and light rubbing to the interior of the base.
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A closely related example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published in the Monochrome Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. 2, Hong Kong, 1968, p. 123, pls 4 and 4a; another is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 2, London, 1986, pl. 775; and two bowls from the Edward T. Chow collection were sold in our Hong Kong rooms, the first, 25^th November 1980, lot 53, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 28^th October 2002, lot 685, and the second, 19^th May 1981, lot 456, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 17^th May 1988, lot 4.