A LARGE CIZHOU CARVED BOWL

LATE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CIZHOU CARVED BOWL
LATE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
Of widely flaring rounded sides, covered inside and out with a white slip and the interior freely carved through the slip to the body with a leafy peony stem below a line border, all under a transparent glaze that falls irregularly towards the unglazed foot exposing the pale grey stoneware
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York.
Thomas Barlow Walker Collection of Antiquities and Oriental Art, Sold to Benefit the Walker Art Center: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 26 - 28 September 1972, lot 705.

Exhibited

Huntsville Museum of Art, Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 34, p. 25.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 22.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical bowl, unearthed at the Cizhou kiln site of Haobiji in Henan from the late Northern Song stratum, is illustrated in Wenwu, 1964:8, p. 7, pl. 2:5. Another similar bowl, found in a Liao dynasty context, is in the Liaoning Provincial Museum, and illustrated in Liaoci Xuanji, Beijing, 1961, no. 95.

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