Lot 275 A
275 A
A SMALL CARVED YAOZHOU CONICAL BOWL

Details
A SMALL CARVED YAOZHOU CONICAL BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

The interior carved with full-face blossoms alternating with blossoms in profile borne on a leafy meandering vine surrounding a central flowerhead, below a plain band, the exterior carved with petals radiating from the small knife-cut foot to a line border below the everted rim, all under a bubble-suffused glaze of olive tone--4 3/8 in. (11cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Bowls of this pattern are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, no. 133 and vol. 10, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, no. 156; as well as in the Barlow Collection, illustrated by Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, pl. 67b