J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
7.
A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON DEEP BOWL
Jin Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
boldly carved on the interior with a lotus blossom and a lily pad amidst curling stems and smaller furled leaves, all enclosed within a single incised line, the exterior with a raised border indented with a shallow concave “finger-groove” below the lipped rim, covered all over with an attractive glossy olive-green glaze pooling in the recessed areas to highlight the design in a deeper green, the knife-pared ring foot unglazed revealing the gray stoneware body unevenly burnt to orange-brown in the firing.
Diameter 7 5⁄8 inches (19.4 cm)
A Yaozhou bowl of this form carved with a similar design of lotus ornament, excavated from the tomb of Dong Jijian at Houma, Shanxi province, dated to the Jin dynasty, A.D. 1210, is illustrated in Kaogu, 1979, No. 5, pl. 11, no. 3.
Compare the Yaozhou bowl of closely related shape and design in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by Mino and Tsang in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition entitled Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, no. 60; and the similarly carved Yaozhou bowl of this form in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Tregear, Song Ceramics, London, 1982, no. 124, p. 106.
Another Yaozhou bowl of this form carved with a similar design of lotus ornament is in the Freer Gallery, illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art Handbook, Washington, DC, 1976, p. 68, top. Compare also the Yaozhou bowl and dish carved with the same design, illustrated by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, nos. 413 and 414.
金 耀州青磁刻花蓮紋碗 徑 19.4 厘米
7.
A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON DEEP BOWL
Jin Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
Diameter 7 5⁄8 inches (19.4 cm)