Lot 1336. A Dehua stem bowl, 17th-early 18th century. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016
The bowl with everted rim is encircled by a bow-string band, and is raised on a spreading pedestal foot with solid recessed base pierced with a vent hole. The glaze is of ivory tone. 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high, 5 ¼ in. (13.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box.
Provenance: Segando, acquired in the early 20th century.
Note: A very similar stem bowl of the same size was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, and illustrated inT.O.C.S., vol. 24, 1948-49, pl. 25, no. 101, where it was dated Ming dynasty. However, when published by P. J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, New York/Washington, 1967, pl. 35c, and p. 96, the author dated it no earlier than Kangxi, more likely between 1675-1725.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza