A RARE 'NUMBER FIVE' JUN TRIPOD 'NARCISSUS' BOWL, YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

A RARE 'NUMBER FIVE' JUN TRIPOD 'NARCISSUS' BOWL
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The sturdily potted bowl has a band of twenty 'nail-head' bosses applied between bow-string borders, and a further sixteen bosses above the three ruyi-form feet. The bowl is covered with a thick glaze, the interior of pale blue and lavender tone and the exterior mostly of mottled purple that thins to brownish-olive on the raised areas. The base has a thin brownish-olive glaze and a ring of spur marks revealing the grey body, and is incised with the character wu (five).
8 ¼ in. (20.9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance
A Hong Kong family collection, acquired first half of the 20th century.
Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1837.

Literature
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 76-77, no. 23.

Exhibited
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.