A WHITE-GLAZED STEM BOWL MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY |

thinly potted, the steep rounded sides rising from a hollow spreading foot to a flared lipped rim, applied with an even white glaze save the foot ring, wood stand (2)

Mathias Komor, New York.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

The cavetto with discoloration from the firing resembling brown freckles, and the rim with a patch of burst glaze bubbles. Additional scattered minor firing flaws scattered throughout. A U-form section of the rim measuring 6 cm at its widest with spray consolidation and a quarter of the foot with spray consolidation, with two associated glaze lines.
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Compare a similar example from the Carl Kempe collection, published in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 683, and sold in our London rooms 5^th November 2008, lot 579.