JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

Details

A YAOZHOU MOULDED ‘BOYS’ BOWL
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The conical bowl is moulded on the interior with two boys holding a continuous floral meander bearing two peony blooms, covered inside and out with a deep olive-green glaze stopping neatly around the foot.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s London, 12 December 1988, lot 146
The T.T. Tsui Collection
The Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 534

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Lot Essay

Three bowls with this pattern are published, one excavated at the Yaozhou kiln site, illustrated in Yaozhou Kiln, Shanxi, 1992, under the Song ceramics section; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, London, 1979, pl.6b; and the third in the Meiyintang collection, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, volume 1, London, 1994, no. 428.

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