NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A Yaozhou celadon bowl carved with a very similar design is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol.1, p. 122, no. 350. Another, from the collection of Hans Wilhelm Siegel, now in the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, is illustrated by A. Schlombs in Meisterwerke aus China, Korea und Japan, Köln Museum, 1995, no. 20, pp. 52-3. One in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by J. Fontein and T. Wu in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 153. See, also, the example illustrated by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Design, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 9e.