NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURUY

The shape of these high-footed, flower-form bowls is related to lacquer bowls of this shape produced during the Song dynasty, such as the black lacquer bowl inscribed with a date corresponding to 1082 in the Tenri Museum, Japan, illustrated by S. Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities, 600-1650, London/Boston, 1979, p. 202, no. 158. See, also, a Yaozhou celadon bowl of this shape with ribs similarly applied to the interior walls illustrated by B. Grey, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, 1953, pl. 72A.