A CARVED YINGQING BOWL

Details

A CARVED YINGQING BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

The flared sides rising to the slightly everted rim, the interior carved with two fish swimming amidst combed waves, all but the rim covered with a clear glaze of blue-green tone; together with a molded yingqing vase, Yuan dynasty, the body molded with alternating panels of tigers and elephants, between key-fret borders, surmounted by a flared, lobed trumpet mouth (chips); and with a yingqing grayish-white glazed ewer, early Song dynasty, the sharply angled shoulder of the vessel applied with a long spout and a strap handle joining the reel-shaped neck just below the dished mouth, the gray-white glaze falling in an irregular line above the low foot to reveal the unglazed white ware burnt orange in the firing (chip to spout)
7¼in. (18.4cm.) diam.; 6¾ and 7¾in. (17.2 and 19.7cm.) high (3)

Exhibited

Yingqing bowl: Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics From the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 74

Lot Essay

Compare a similar yingqing bowl carved with two fish in the interior, illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Design, London, 1979, pl. 16b

The molded yingqing vase can be compared to a pair of vases included in the exhibition, The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics, University of Maryland, January 18-March 9, 1995, Catalogue, p. 66, no. 64 a,b