SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

A similar bowl and cover discovered among a group of Song dynasty ceramics excavated at Lueyang, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Wenwu 1976:11, pl. 6, fig. 2. Other comparable examples unearthed in Zhejiang, are illustrated in Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics, A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, pp. 55-7, nos. 56-60. Others include one from the Yokogawa Collection in the Tokyo National Museum, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1953, no. 98; and one in the British Museum, illustrated by B. Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. 89.