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拍品专文
This exquisitely potted tea bowl is very rare and few other similar examples are known, the closest being an example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds: the Culture, Practice, and Art of Tea, Taipei, 2002, p. 58, no. 36, which shares a similar profile and moulded decoration as the current bowl but has an incised Yongle mark enclosed within a circle rather than a flaming pearl. The single-circled mark is found on tianbai-glazed conical tea bowls and stem bowls of this period, see the former in the National Palace Museum, museum numbers Guci 014509-014510, and an example of the later illustrated in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 98, no. 3:1.
Compare also to a Hongwu period copper-red glazed tea cup similarly moulded with dragons but with a cloud motif to the centre of interior, ibid, Taipei, p. 55, no. 33, where the author notes that the size and shape of such bowl were originated no earlier than Yuan dynasty as a response to the change in tea-drinking practice from powdered tea to steeping of tea leaves.
Compare also to a Hongwu period copper-red glazed tea cup similarly moulded with dragons but with a cloud motif to the centre of interior, ibid, Taipei, p. 55, no. 33, where the author notes that the size and shape of such bowl were originated no earlier than Yuan dynasty as a response to the change in tea-drinking practice from powdered tea to steeping of tea leaves.