AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE, FINE AND IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE LOBED ‘FISH POND’ BOWL, MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE

Auction House: Sotheby's Hong Kong
Sale: Fishes in the Imperial Pond - An Exceptional Xuande Bowl
Date: 2017/4/5
Lot No.: 101
Diameter: 23cm
Estimate: HK$100,000,000
Sold: HK$229,037,500

EXHIBITED:
Chūgoku Min Shin bijutsu ten mokuroku/Chinese Arts of the Ming and Ch’ing Periods, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1963, cat. no. 290.
Shinkan kansei kinen tokubetsu tenrankai zuhan mokuroku/ Illustrated Catalogues of the Special Exhibition in Memory of the New Building, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, 1966, cat. no. 287.
Mei hachi ten [Exhibition of famous bowls], Osaka, 1971, cat. no. 10.
Tōyō no sometsuke tōji ten/Far Eastern Blue-and-white Porcelain, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1977, cat. no. 34.
Min Shin no bijutsu [The art of Ming and Qing], Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-26.

LITERATURE:
Fujioka Ryoichi, Tōji taikei [Outlines of ceramics], vol. 42: Min no sometsuke [Ming blue-and-white], Tokyo, 1975, col. pl. 17.
Satō Masahiko, Chūgoku tōji shi [History of Chinese ceramics], Tokyo, 1978, p. 182, " g. 224.
Satō Masahiko, Chinese Ceramics. A Short History, New York and Tokyo, 1981, p. 164, " g. 237.