Chinese porcelain bowl with reticulated wall (linglong), c. 1643, Chongzhen reign.

Chinese export porcelain bowl with reticulated wall (linglong) and medallions with landscapes decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue (qinghua), narrow unglazed bands under the rim and on the foot rim, unglazed base, c. 1643, Chongzhen reign, Ming dynasty, h. 5 cm, 2 in; d. 9 cm, 3½  in. Fitted silk box 1-18361

Literature:

• Octagonal low bowl with a round open work medallion in each side decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue with a pair of mandarin ducks at the centre swimming in a pond, d. 13 cm, 5 in, dated from the Jiajing reign (1522-1566), at the Frick Collection, New York, bequest of Childs Frick in memory of Francis Dixon Frick, inventory 1965.8.60;

• Globular honey-comb linglong double wall tea pot and cover decorated in under-glaze cobalt blue at the Frick Collection, New York, bequest of Childs Frick in memory of Francis Dixon Frick, inventory 1965.8.65;

• A Catalogue of Blue and White Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson, London 1878, plate XVIII, cat. 306 for an octagonal tea bowl with reticulated walls;

• Oriental Ceramic Art, by S.W. Bushell, 1896 New York reprint of 1980, p. 189, fig. 248 for a similar bowl of smaller size and p. 268, fid. 322 for a small bowl in white porcelain;

• Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, by R.L. Hobson, New York and London 1915, plate 78, fig. 2 for a similar bowl from the Hippisley Collection;

• Chinesisches Porzellan, by E. Zimmermann, 1923 Leipzig, plate 84 for a tea bowl and saucer, a globular teapot with arch handle, and a bowl all dated Kangxi, and plate 109 for a plate with open work border decorated in translucent enamels dated Kangxi;

• Chinese Porcelain: Periods of K’ang Hsi, Yung Chéng and Ch’ien Lung, by W.B. Honey, London 1927, plate 38a for double-wall bowl;

• La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, by J.P. van Goidsenhoven, Brussels 1936, plate 20, cat. 38 for a bowl;

• Illustrated Catalogue of Porcelains Decorated in Under-glaze Blue and Copper Red in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, by M Medley, London 1963, plate XVII, cat. B620-623, for bowls;

• Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, 1974 London, cat. 97 for a bowl decorated in under-glaze blue with 15,5 cm in diameter from the Collection Bal, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands;

• Chinese Blue & White Porcelain, by D. Macintosh, 1977 Devon, UK, p. 59, cat. 41 for a pair of bowls Wanli mark and period decorated in under-glaze blue with 8,8 cm in diameter;

• The Wrestling Boys Exhibition held at the Burghley House, 1983, catalogue by G. Lang, p. 77, cat. 197 for a pair of double wall tea bowls;

• The Burghley Porcelains, an Exhibition catalogue from the Burghley House Collection and based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule, Japan Society New York 1986, pp. 84/85, cat. 7 for a 1650 dated silver gilt mounted small bowl with reticulated walls;

• The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, The Complete Record (1643/46-1752), by C. Sheaf and R. Kilburn, Oxford 1988, p. 44, fig. 53 for a bowl from the 1643/46 wreck;

• Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, by R.E. Scott, 1989 London, p. 82, cat. 74, for a bowl with 8,8 cm in diameter decorated in under-glaze blue;

• Pronken Met Oosters Porselein, catalogue by S. Hartog, 1990 Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands, p. 53, cat. 27 for a bowl with 11,6 cm in diameter with heavier under-glaze blue decoration; p. 102, cat. 113 for a globular teapot; p. 124, cat. 148 for an undecorated round bowl with 9,3 cm in diameter with the Chenghua mark but second quarter 17th century;

• Porzellan aus China und Japan, die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, 1990 catalogue for Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, p. 300/301, cat. 63a-d for two double-body vases with covers and two beakers 26,5 & 20,7 cm high, dated 17th/18th century;

• Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period, by R. Scott and R. Kerr, Exhibition at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1994/5, p. 36, cat 74 for a pair of bowls;

• A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, by D.S. Howard, 1997 London, p. 66, cat. 65 for a smaller silver gilt mounted bowl;

• Precious Cargo, Scots and the China Trade, 1997 Edinburgh, catalogue by S. Leiper, p. 32 for a globular double wall teapot;

• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, by C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 82, cat. 71 for two bowls one undecorated;

• Chinese Ceramics in the Bauer Collection, by J. Ayers, 1999 Genève, vol. I, p. 176, cat. 112 for an undecorated round bowl dated early 17th century;

• Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, by J. Harrison-Hall, London 2001, p. 369, cat. 12:41 to 44 for two pairs of bowls;

• Jan Menze van Diepen, A selection from the Collection of Oriental Ceramics, by C.J.A. Jörg, 2002 Groningen, p. 99, cat. 64 for a globular teapot and p. 100, cat. 65 for a tea bowl and saucer;

• L’Odyssée de la Porcelaine Chinoise, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p. 132, cat. 68 for a linglong narghileh bottle at the Musée nationale Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, France;

• The Glory of Barroque, Dresden, The State Art Collections, 2005 exhibition catalogue in Mississippi, p. 183, cat. 5.1A and 5.1B for an arch handled teapot and a tea bowl and saucer dated 1700/1720;

• Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection, by Sir M. Butler and Prof. Wang Qingzheng, 2006 Shanghai, pp. 84/85, cat. 10 for a pair of undecorated bowls with 8,5 cm in diameter from the Shanghai Museum;

• Ming, Porcelain for a Globalised Trade, by E. Ströber, Stuttgart 2013, p. 222, cat. 118/119 for two hexagonal bowls;

• 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 5 for a tea bowl and saucer and a beaker and saucer;

• Qing Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2015/2016, cat. 7 for two tea bowls and saucers;

• Yuan to Qing Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2016/2017, cat. 16 for a bowl with 14 cm in diameter;

• Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, by J. Ayers, 2016 London, vol. 1, p. 169 for three double wall cups dated 1650-1680;

• Jingdezhen to the world: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the late Ming Dynasty, by T. Canepa, isbn 978-912168-09-5, 2019, pp. 350, cat. 126 for an octagonal bowl from the Hatcher junk, diameter 10,7 cm, dated 1643;

• Yuan to Qing Ceramics, by A. Varela Santos, cat. 16 for similar cup.

Note: In the VOC (Dutch East India Company) archives this type of bowls is registered since as early as 1643.

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Stock number

5125