A YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED CONICAL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY
With slightly rounded, widely flared sides, the interior well carved with a leafy stem bearing a large peony blossom, with combed details, covered inside and out with a bubble-suffused glaze of greyish-green color pooling in the recesses and thinning to mushroom at the rim
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam., box