A RARE BLUE AND WHITE POURING BOWL YUAN DYNASTY

of shallow rounded form with a slightly domed interior base, set at one side with a small spout of square section applied underneath with a small scroll loop, painted in underglaze-blue with flowerheads among foliate scrolls on the interior encircled by a double line border and a band of classic scroll at the well, the exterior with lotus petal panels, the rim unglazed, the base with a thin coating of translucent glaze

Sotheby's New York, 4th December 1984, lot 320.
Sotheby's London, 12th November 2003, lot 88.

Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 205.

Some slight glaze intersection to the rim on the left hand side of the spout. Two dry patches to the interior of the bowl where the glaze has not taken, otherwise in good condition.
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Several pouring bowls of this form are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 11, Shanghai, 2000, pls.213-217, one of the same lingzhi design inside but a classic scroll outside, excavated at Anqing, Anhui province and now in the Anhui Provincial Museum, the others with simple lotus panels on the outside and various designs inside, the Capital Museum, Beijing, the Tianminlou collection, Hong Kong, the Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, and the Guangdong Provincial Museum. Compare also another bowl decorated with a lotus bouquet inside and lotus panels on the exterior, in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, illustrated in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi, Beijing, 1998, p. 42, pl. 23. 

Another pouring bowl of this type, the interior painted with a pair of swimming mandarin ducks, from the collection of David L. Nathan and now in the National Gallery of Victoria, was sold in these rooms, 15th May 1962, lot 55.