Lot 125
125
A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON HEXAFOIL BOWL, the slightly rounded sides rising conically to a floral rim of exceptionally crisp outline, each petal sharply lobed vertically down the thin body, all under a glaze of pale olive-green tones turning slightly brown around the foot and stopping neatly above the footring revealing the compact pale grey body, Five Dynasties/Northern Song Dynasty

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A VERY RARE YAOZHOU CELADON HEXAFOIL BOWL, the slightly rounded sides rising conically to a floral rim of exceptionally crisp outline, each petal sharply lobed vertically down the thin body, all under a glaze of pale olive-green tones turning slightly brown around the foot and stopping neatly above the footring revealing the compact pale grey body, Five Dynasties/Northern Song Dynasty
18.5cm. diam., fitted box

Lot Essay

A related bowl in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, previously in the Hellner collection, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.8, no. 131; another in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is included in Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, pl. 48B; two other floral shaped bowls can be seen in Zhongquo Taoqi Quanji, vol.10, pls.3 and 37

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