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

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A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl is finely potted with rounded sides rising to a lipped rim. The interior is carved with a scrolling stem bearing a hibiscus blossom. The bowl is covered inside and out with a glaze of olive-green tone, except for the base of the foot ring which shows the grey biscuit body.
8 3/8 in. (21.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

M‌ayuyama, Japan.
Ehime Bunkakan, Japan.

Special notice

Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. The amount of the import tariff due is a percentage of the final hammer price plus buyer's premium. The buyer should contact Post Sale Services prior to the sale to determine the estimated amount of the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff, but the shipment may be delayed while awaiting approval to export from the local government. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. For the purpose of calculating sales tax, if applicable, the import tariff will be added to the final hammer price plus buyer's premium and sales tax will be collected as per The Buyer's Premium and Taxes section of the Conditions of Sale.

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Lot Essay

A Yaozhou celadon bowl 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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