A YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL
A YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL

JIN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL
JIN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The rounded, widely flared sides rise to the thumb-grooved rim, and the interior is well carved with two musk mallow flowers and a leaf borne on scrolling stems to form a circular composition. The bowl is covered overall with a glaze of sea-green color.
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2002.

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Lot Essay

A Yaozhou celadon bowl of the same shape, and carved with a very similar design, is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol.1, p. 122, no. 350. Another, from the collection of Hans Wilhelm Siegel, now in the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, is illustrated by A. Schlombs in Meisterwerke aus China, Korea und Japan, Köln Museum, 1995, no. 20, pp. 52-3. One in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by J. Fontein and T. Wu in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 153. See, also, the example illustrated by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Design, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 9e.

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