A MOLDED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL

SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A MOLDED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL
SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
With shallow, flared sides, molded in the center with a large leafy peony stem surrounded by six panels of leaves below a narrow band of classic scroll, covered all over in a green glaze continuing over the unglazed foot rim to cover the base, burnt slightly orange in the firing
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Christie's, London, 10-11 April 1984, lot 141.

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Lot Essay

A very similar, though smaller (13.5 cm.) dish, with the same design in the collection of the Yaozhou Ware Museum in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Yaozhou Yao, Shanghai, 1985, no. 51, where it is dated Song dynasty.

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