NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

A Yaozhou bowl molded with a very similar lotus bouquet excavated at Huangbaozhen is illustrated in Shaanxi Tongchuan Yaozhouyao, Beijing, 1965, pl. XIX: 2, with line drawings of the bowl appearing in fig. 20:1, and fig. 22:1. Other conical bowls molded with designs of bouquets of bundled lotus have been unearthed at Yaozhou kiln sites in late Northern Song strata (1086-1127), and are illustrated in Songdai Yaozhou Yaozhi, Beijing, 1998, p. 156, figs. 84: 5-9. A larger Yaozhou conical bowl molded with a lotus bouquet with four boys clinging to the stems is illustrated in R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 238, no. 427.