SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

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A RARE LARGE CIZHOU CARVED DEEP BASIN
southern song dynasty
Covered with a white slip thinning above the exposed foot-rim and freely carved at the centre with a flower-head within a narrow undecorated band below three blossoming lotus-buds amidst curling leaves at the sides, all reserved on a combed ground, the rim and slightly-faceted exterior undecorated, foot chips, rim frit
11¾in. (30cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar Cizhou basin, carved at the centre of the interior with a peony cluster below a trellis band, is in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated by M. Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, pl.104B; see also Y.Mino, Freedom of Brush and Clay through Seven Centuries in China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares 960-1600 A.D., Catalogue, Indiana University Press, 1980, pl.34, p.93, and fig.77, p.92

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