NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A Yaozhou celadon bowl of similar shape and with similar carved design is illustrated by B. Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 70. Another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3(II), London, 2006, p. 479, no. 1482. Two others of the same shape and with related design, where two stems cross, but with two buds and one flower, rather than the arrangement on the present bowl, are also published: one in the O.C.S. exhibition catalogue, Iron in the Fire, London, 1988, p. 42, no. 21; the other from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Japan, in the exhibition catalogue, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, p. 60, no. 54.