The exterior adorned with a light floral scroll, the interior with lotus plants in reserve against a blue background
Provenance: Acquired before 1975. Similar bowls have been found in cargo aboard the San Diego and Witte Leeuw (see M. Crick, Chinese Trade Ceramics for South-East Asia from the 1st to the 17th Century. Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller, Milan 2010, n. 229; another similar bowl is in the British Museum (J. Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London 2001, p. 307, n. 11:81).