A CORAL-RED BOWL MING DYNASTY, JIAJING PERIOD

the rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a gently flared rim, overglazed with an iron-red enamel of warm tone on the interior and exterior, the domed base left white and covered with a transparent glaze slightly tinged to blue

Collection of Lord Cunliffe.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 6.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30th April 1991, lot 28.

Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 702.

There is some wear to the iron-red enamel at the bottom on the interior, a slightly polished minute chip and two other minor nicks to the rim together with some rubbing around the mouth rim and foot ring, but generally the bowl is in good condition. The colour of the bowl is slightly brighter and less tinged with orange comparing to the illustration.
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This iron-derived coral-red glaze was very rarely used on its own as a monochrome glaze colour, but a matching coral-red dish of the Jiajing period (AD 1522-66), also unmarked but from the Qing court collection, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 29; another iron-red bowl of similar form, but with the enamel more unevenly applied, was sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 152.