A Yaozhou 'Moon White' Bowl

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A Yaozhou 'Moon White' Bowl
Song dynasty (960-1279)
With thickly potted shallow sides flaring from the ring foot and rounding in very slightly at the rim, covered allover with a thick glaze of even pale greyish-green tone, the interior of the foot covered with a thin glaze wash
5½in. (14cm.), box

Lot Essay

This type of bowl with rounded mouth rim, and an opaque, very pale glaze was made at the Yaozhou kilns. A similar bowl in the Yaozhou Kiln Museum, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, 10, Yaozhou yao, Shanghai, 1985, no. 39. See, also a bowl of the same form and color, excavated from the Tongchuan, Yaozhou kiln, illustrated in Yaozhou Kiln, Xian, 1992, attributed to the Jin dynasty and described as having a 'moon white' glaze (yuebai you)

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