A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl with deep rounded sides rising from the straight foot rim and deftly carved with two leafy peony sprays, covered overall with a transparent glaze of olive-green color, the cover with flat, flaring rim and domed center carved with a further peony stem and surmounted by a flattened, coiled stem finial, covered with a glaze that continues over the rim in places, the underside of the cover left unglazed exposing the fine-grained ware
Bowl 4¼ in. (10.9 cm.) diam., cover 4¾ in. (12 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Christie's Swire, Hong Kong, 31 October 1994, lot 533.
Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 September 2005, lot 35.

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Lot Essay

A very similar Yaozhou celadon bowl and cover is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, p. 483, no. 1486. Fragmentary covered bowls of this type have been recovered from the Yaozhou kiln sites at Huangpu near Tongchuan in Shaanxi province. See Songdai Yaozhou yaozhi, Beijing, 1998, col. pl. 2, fig. 2, and pl. 29, fig. 6.

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