Lot description
A Junyao purple and blue-glazed tripod narcissus bowl, Ming dynasty 明 鈞窰紫釉鼓釘三足水仙盆 底刻「五」及「八」字、一足內刻「八」字 potted with shallow rounded sides raised on three ruyi-feet, the exterior bordered by a band of evenly spaced studs between two raised ribs around the rim, and another band of studs above the feet, applied overall with a two-tone glaze, the interior with a sky-blue glaze, the exterior with a purple glaze transmuting to lavender-blue and thinning to a mushroom tone at the raised edges, the base wheel-cut with numeral wu (five) and later engraved with ba (eight), surrounded by a ring of spur marks revealing the stoneware body, the interior of one foot carved with another ba (eight) 20.2 cm
