SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

As well as having a domestic purpose, bowls of this type were made for export, as evidenced by examples recovered from a shipwreck off the Korean coast, "probably on its way to Japan, on or shortly after AD 1323," and illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 15 top and bottom.