NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A CARVED YAOZHOU DISH
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The shallow dish has rounded sides and a slightly everted rim, and is freely carved in the interior with a leafy stem bearing one blossom, with combed details, and is covered all over in a greyish-green glaze stopping short of the foot burnt orange in the firing.
7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's New York, 8 November 1980, lot 149.
The Dr. and Mrs. Corbin Collection, California.

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Lot Essay

A Yaozhou dish of similar size and decoration was included in the exhibition, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, p. 37, no. 42, where it is dated Northern Song dynasty, 11th-12th century.

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