NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 10TH-13TH CENTURY

Compare the Yaozhou celadon bowl and cover of similar shape, excavated in 1988 from Liulin, Yaoxian, Shaanxi province, now in the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, p. 77, no. 98, where it is dated Jin dynasty, 12th century, and where it is listed as an important cultural property. Compare, also, the similar bowl and cover, illustrated by B. McElney in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, vol. 1: Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no. 62, p. 104.