A YINGQING PETAL-FORM STEM BOWL

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A YINGQING PETAL-FORM STEM BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

Finely potted, the deep, flaring cup molded into six petals and supported on a tall, spreading foot, and covered in a clear glaze of pale, bluish-green tone, minor rim chip--4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar stem cup in the Hellner Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha, 1982, vol. 8, no. 174 and another with less everted rim in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, pl. 199