AN OLIVE-GREEN CELADON LOBED HEXAFOIL DISH

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AN OLIVE-GREEN CELADON LOBED HEXAFOIL DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Carved with a duck swimming amongst combed waves at the center below similar waves in the cavetto, the glaze pooling in some areas and thinning on the lobes--6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) diam.

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Similar dishes are illustrated by Walter Hoschstadter, Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, no. 55; Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, pl. 8f, in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 71B in the Seligman Collection; and also in Zhengyuan Wenwu, (Cultural Relics from Central Plains), no. 3, 1984, pl. 11, no. 7, found in Loyang, Hunan Province