TWO WHITE GLAZED RETICULATED BOWLS


17th centuryEach with rounded sides rising to an everted rim, delicately pierced around the middle with a coin diaper band incorporating four lines of the Northern Song dynasty poem shentong shi, the characters arranged in alternating groups of three and two, and left unglazed to reveal the biscuit, above a sgrafiatto band encircling the base, the white glaze with a pale blue cast, the foot unglazed. 3 3/4in (8.5cm) diam. (2).
|十七世紀 白釉鏤空神童詩盌兩件Provenance:Virginia Hobart (1876-1958), thence by descentA nearly identical bowl with a coin design and poem is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, 1998, p. 229. Other similar bowls in the British Museum from the Percival David collection are cataloged as Wanli period. A Ming dynasty, early 17th century bowl made using a similar technique was sold at Christie's, New York, 25 March 2011, lot 1773.