NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

Yaozhou bowls of this classic form and flower scroll pattern can be found in museum collections worldwide and include the example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 129, no. 115; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Song Yuan ciqi tezhan mulu (Special Exhibition of Sung and Yuan Porcelains), Taipei, 1971, no. 44; another in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsiang in Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, no. 62; one in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, Rev. Ed., New York, 1989, no. 74; one in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston illustrated by J. Fontein and Wu Tung, World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 156; and one in the Princeton Art Museum illustrated by Z. Kwok, The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to 14th Century, Princeton, 2019, p. 167, no. 38.

A shard with molded decoration of this pattern discovered at the Yaozhou kiln site in Huangpu, Shaanxi province is illustrated in the excavation report, Song dai Yaozhou yao zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, in a pair of line drawings on p. 107, pl. 60-2.