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
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A FLOWER-SHAPED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of deep form, the slightly flaring steep sides divided into six rounded lobes of equal size rising to a notched rim with rolled-out projecting lip, the interior with six corresponding raised ribs rising from an inset ring at the center, covered inside and out with a glossy olive-green glaze continuing over the recessed base, and with a bright rust-brown splash of oxidized iron pigment at the lip rim, the edge of the short ring foot left unglazed showing the gray stoneware fired to tan-brown, and with the fingernail-marks of the potter showing around the base.
Diameter 4 7⁄8 inches (12.9 cm)
A very similar Yaozhou celadon bowl in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, donated by Mr. Masanobu Irie, and another very similar example from the Yao Zhou Ware Museum are illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition entitled The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, nos. 26 and 27, p. 25, attributed to the 11th century.
A fragment of a bowl of similar shape and size excavated in 1986 from the Yaozhou kiln site is illustrated in Song Dai Yaozhou Yao Zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, pl. 39, no. 3, with line drawing in fig. 90, no. 1, p. 167.
北宋 耀州青磁花口盞 徑 12.9 厘米
8.
A FLOWER-SHAPED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Diameter 4 7⁄8 inches (12.9 cm)