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
36.
A CARVED YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN FOLIATE BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with thinly potted straight sides flaring to a petal-shaped rim divided into six lobes, well carved on the interior with three ribbon-tied sprays of lotus in the well, encircling a plain recessed medallion in the center, corresponding to the high ring foot, the attractive pale bluish glaze of good color pooling to aquamarine-blue in the lines of the carved decoration and around the margins of the foot, the glaze continuing over the footrim, the recessed base left unglazed and showing burnt marks from the kiln support.
Diameter 6 7⁄8 inches (17.5 cm)
From the Collection of Mr. Robert M. Ferris IV, Vermont
A carved Yingqing foliate bowl with angled sides similarly decorated with three tied lotus sprays, in the collection of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (PDF A497), is illustrated by Pierson, ed., Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, no. 3, p. 32, where the authors cite another example of similar form carved with different foliate motifs in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji 16, Song Yuan Qingbai Ci, Shanghai, 1984, no. 97.
北宋 影青劃花葵口碗 徑 17.5 厘米
