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               A WHITE-GLAZED STEM BOWL                  White-glazed stem bowls such as the present piece were                         A FAHUA-GLAZED ‘FLORAL’ MEIPING
               MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY                produced during the Ming dynasty under the Yongle                              MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
                                                         Emperor’s reign for imperial ceremonial use. Such stem
               fitted rattan case (2)                    bowls were used in mourning ceremonies that Yongle                             Height 11⅜ in., 28.9 cm
               Diameter 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm                  conducted for his predecessor, the Hongwu Emperor, in order
                                                         to legitimize his own claim to the throne. A devout Tibetan                    PROVENANCE
               PROVENANCE                                Buddhist, Yongle also likely employed these wares in rituals                   European Private Collection.
               Suichikudo, Tokyo, 1989.                  and gifted them to monasteries in Tibet.
                                                         Compare a stem bowl of similar profile sold in our Hong                        ⊖  $ 5,000-7,000
               ⊖  $ 50,000-70,000
                                                         Kong rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 49, and one attributed
                                                         to the late 15th century, sold in our London rooms, 9th                        明十六世紀   琺華花卉紋梅瓶
               明十五世紀   白釉高足盌                             December 1986. A slightly later stem bowl, attributed to the
                                                         Zhengde period, is published in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese                        來源
                                                         Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl.
               來源                                                                                                                       歐洲私人收藏
                                                         683, and sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2008, lot

               翠竹堂,東京,1989年
                                                         579. For a Yongle mark and period anhua-decorated example,
                                                         see one illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of
                                                         Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
                                                         2001, pl. 3:1.



















































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