A WELL-CARVED YAOZHOU DISH

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A WELL-CARVED YAOZHOU DISH
JIN DYNASTY

The shallow sides flaring widely to the finger-grooved rim from a shallow ring foot, freely carved on the interior with a sweeping lotus spray medallion, covered overall with a clear, crackled glaze of deep olive tone pooling to a darker tone in the recesses--7¼in. (18.3cm.) diam., box

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 58

Lot Essay

Compare two yaozhou dishes and a bowl carved with this design included in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics, I, 1988, nos. 470-472, one in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, illustrated by Jansen, Chinese Ceramiek, pl. 69, and another illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 1, no. 414.