A YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF ZHENGDE

the deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to a gently everted rim, applied overall with a rich yellow glaze of deep even tone, the unglazed footring burnt orange around the inner edge, the white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double ring 

Collection of E.T. Chow (by repute).
Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art, London, 2003.

The bowl is very slightly warped, but otherwise it is in very good condition. Minor surface scratches as can be expected.
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A closely related bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is published in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 155; one from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold in these rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 53, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 685; and another was sold in our New York rooms, 23rd September 1995, lot 421. Bowls of this type, but of slightly smaller size, include one formerly from the collection of Lord Cunliffe, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 1418; and another sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 150.