NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

This type of bowl with rounded mouth rim, and an opaque, very pale glaze was made at the Yaozhou kilns. A bowl similar bowl in the Yaozhou Kiln Museum, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 10, Yaozhou yao, Shanghai, 1985, no. 39. See, also, a bowl of this same form and color, excavated from the Tongchuan, Yaozhou kiln, illustrated in Yaozhou Kiln, Xian, 1992, attributed to the Jin dynasty and described as having a 'moon white' glaze (yuebai you).