A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL JUN YAO NUMBERED 'NARCISSUS' BOWL

YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY

The body heavily potted, moulded to the exterior beneath the lipped rim with a band containing twenty-one raised 'nail head' studs, with another row to the base above three short ruyi-shaped feet, decorated with a finely mottled pale blue and greyish-purple glaze, the base incised er (two), 25cm.

Provenance: the collection of Andrew Williams Esq., Oxfordshire.

Cf. Selection of Jun Ware, the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, p.231, for a closely related example dated to the Song dynasty; see also p.257 for another dated to the Yuan/early Ming.