A CARVED YINGQING BOWL

细节
A CARVED YINGQING BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

With flared sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior expertly carved with two boys frolicking amidst a band of foliage and pairs of large combed peony blossoms, all under a transparent glaze of pale blue tone--8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

A similar bowl attributed to the late Northern/Southern Song Dynasty was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition, Jingdezhen Wares, The Yuan Evolution, 1984, Catalogue, no. 2; and a similar shard from Hutian was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, London, 1980, Catalogue, no. 240. Line drawings of a conical bowl of this pattern in the Swedish Royal Collection are illustrated by Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, fig. 17a, and a bowl excavated in Zhejian province, fig. 29d(1). Others are in public collections, including the Toyko National Museum; the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham; and the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts