NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A FINE LARGE YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
Well potted with rounded sides flaring from a shallow ring foot to the finger-grooved rim, fluidly carved on the interior with the gracefully curving stems of a lotus blossom and leaf and a sagittaria leaf, all under a glaze of attractive greenish-olive tone, the interior of the foot and base covered with a thin glaze wash
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

While Yaozhou bowls of this general pattern are well known, the inclusion of the sagittaria leaf in the design on the present bowl is very unusual. A carved Yaozhou bowl of slightly larger size (22.5 cm.), but also incorporating a sagittaria leaf into the design, is in the Tokyo National Museum, and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, no. 71.

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