A Rare Small Yaozhou Celadon Molded Conical Bowl

SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Details

A Rare Small Yaozhou Celadon Molded Conical Bowl
Song/Jin dynasty, 11th-12th century
The flared sides rising from the small, low ring foot to a slightly everted rim, the interior molded with two ducks swimming amidst lotus plants and water weeds, one with head turned backwards, covered overall with a glaze of greyish-green color
3 9/16in. (9cm.) diam., stand
Falk Collection no. 221.

Provenance

Cunliffe Collection, no. CN12.
Bluett & Sons, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, London, June 1971.

Exhibited

Early Chinese Miniatures, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1977, no. 203.

Lot Essay

It is extremely rare to find a Yaozhou bowl of this unusually small size. A bowl molded with a similar scene of ducks in a lotus pond, but of slightly larger size (11cm.), was included in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Collection of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, The British Museum, 1972, no. 125. Similar bowls of this slightly larger size have been published: one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 8, no. 135, and another is illustrated by U. Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik: Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Köln, 1988, no. 50.

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