SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON CRACKLE-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL
Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
The widely flared sides rising from a small foot ring, covered allover with a glaze of luminous soft blue-green tone suffused with gold-colored crackle repeated inside the foot and on the slightly pointed base; together with a Longquan celadon bowl, Southern Song dynasty, with rounded conical sides carved on the exterior with a band of overlapping petals, covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze suffused with clear crackle
5½ and 5 1/8in. (14 and 13cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Collection of Sir Herbert Ingram.
Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1989, lots 257 and 256 respectively.

Lot Essay

Crackle-glazed Longquan bowls of this type may have been made in imitation of Guan wares and have been excavated from the Song dynasty kiln at Shifangxian; see Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 166, no. 137. A similar bowl with a metal-bound rim is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 151, no. 136, where it is noted to have been in the Qing court collection. Another bowl of this type is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, and is illustrated in China at the Inception of the Second Millennium - Art and Culture of the Sung Dynasty, Taipei, 2000, p. 167, nos. III-21.

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