SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

A bowl of this shape, similarly decorated in buff overglaze with two phoenixes in flight in the interior, is illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare's, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, p. 239, no. 95.