A YAOZHOU CELADON MOLDED BOWL

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A YAOZHOU CELADON MOLDED BOWL
JIN DYNASTY

Of conical form with steep flaring sides rising from a circular ring foot, molded in the interior with two large peony blossoms borne on dense leafy scroll, covered inside and out in a glaze of pale olive tone darkening in the recesses and thinning to pale brown at the rim; together with a small Longquan celadon box and cover, molded on the cover with a stylized prunus tree comprising three blossoms and the trunk of the tree, covered in a thick, widely crackled bluish-green glaze stopping short of the unglazed rims burnt reddish-brown in the firing
8¼ and 3¾in. (20.9 and 9.6cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

C.T. Loo, Paris (box and cover)

Exhibited

Detroit Institute of Art

Lot Essay

A very similar Yaozhou molded bowl is in The Art Institute of Chicago and was included in the exhibition, Ice and Green Clouds, Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Musuem of Art, 1986, illustrated by Mino and Tsang in the Catalogue, p. 159. Compare, also, a carved example, with less densely arranged decoration and only one peony blossom, dated to the late Northern Song/Jin dynasty, included in the Inaugural Exhibition of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. 1, 1993, Chinese Ceramics, no. 81

For similar Longquan celadon box and cover see the example included in the exhibition, Ceramics in Scholarly Taste, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore, 1993, Catalogue, p. 84, no. 61