A RARE JUNYAO MOON-WHITE GLAZED NUMBERED NARCISSUS BOWL

A RARE JUNYAO MOON-WHITE GLAZED NUMBERED NARCISSUS BOWL
Early Ming dynasty
Potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a flat recessed well, supported on three ruyi-shaped feet emerging from the short circular foot ring, the rim bordered with twenty evenly-spaced bosses between two narrow raised ridges, with seventeen further bosses encircling the base just above the foot ring, applied overall with an even milky-blue glaze with characteristic worm-tracks, thinning to a mushroom tone along the raised edges and bosses, the foot incised with the numeral er (two) and washed with a brown glaze turning to olive where the glaze thickens, the bottoms of the feet revealing the gray stoneware body, wood stand.
8 5/8in (22cm) diam. (2).