Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 11th/12th Century
with rounded sides rising to a wide galleried rim, the interior deftly carved with a stylized lotus spray and curling foliage surrounded by combed waves, covered inside and out with a translucent olive-green glaze of even tone, the small knife-pared footring wiped clean of glaze, the exposed stoneware body showing tan and brown from the firing.
Diameter 5 1⁄2 inches (14 cm)
Ex Collection George De Menasce, no. 251.
A Yaozhou bowl of this form and pattern in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm is illustrated by Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 8L. Other similar examples are illustrated by Dubosc in the exhibition catalogue Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo, Mostra d’Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, p. 120, no. 410, from the Gure Collection; by Sullivan in Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 66a; by d’Argencé in The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, San Francisco and Japan, 1973, no. 85; by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, London, 1994, p. 233, no. 419 and by Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London 2004, p. 17, no. 9 right, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Other Yaozhou examples of the same pattern and shape but with a plain rim are in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty), Vol. 32, Hong Kong 1996, p. 120, no. 106; in the Percival David foundation, illustrated by Pierson, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London 1997, p. 56, no. A210, col. pl. p. 47; and in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 210, no. 87.
北宋 耀州青瓷刻花碗 徑 14 厘米