A RARE SMALL YUEYAO CELADON FLOWER-FORM DISH

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

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A RARE SMALL YUEYAO CELADON FLOWER-FORM DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY
The dish has shallow flared sides that rise to the rim carved as five petals, and is covered all over and on the flat base with a grey-green glaze. There are six spur marks on the base.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Ruth Dreyfus Collection, Paris, March 1970.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Else Sackler Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, London, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, 1955, pl. 260.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

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Lot Essay

A similar Yue dish of this rare shape and size was sold at Sotheby's New York, 19-20 March 2013, lot 253. A similar, but larger (15.7 cm.) dish in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 112, pl. 105, and the author, p. 110, refers to the flower-shaped bowls (col. pl. O) and the "bracket-lobed series" of dishes (pl. 105), as "among the most elegant and usually of the very finest quality," and further notes that they are "glazed all over."

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