NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A Yaozhou celadon bowl of this rare form impressed with the same design, from the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, is illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 108, no. 147. Another petal-lobed Yaozhou bowl with a closely related pattern is illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1968, pl. A26, and by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A. No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 8h. Compare, also, small Yaozhou bowls molded with very similar patterns discovered at the Yaozhou kiln sites in Huangpu, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Song dai Yaozhou yaozhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, pl. 41-3 and 41-4, with line drawings on p. 172, pl. 172-8 and 172-9 and descriptions on p. 173.

A very similar Yaozhou celadon saucer is illustrated by J. Ayers in The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, vol. II, Chinese and Korean Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1964, pl. LI, D146, and by J. Wirgin, op. cit., pl. 10f. Another Yaozhou celadon saucer of closely related form but with a raised ring at the center is illustrated by R. Hobson in Catalogue of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. II, pl. LII, B176.