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
15.
A YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL MOULDED WITH A DAOIST IMMORTAL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of conical form, the gently rounded flaring sides moulded on the interior with a figure of a Daoist immortal, possibly intended as Xiwangmu, shown holding a long slender tablet in both hands and riding on the back of a crane, surrounded by stylized scrolling clouds, the thick everted rim and underside of the bowl left plain, covered allover with a lustrous olive-green glaze, the edge of the small ring foot unglazed revealing the fine gray stoneware.
Diameter 5 3⁄4 inches (14.5 cm)
Exhibited:
London, Kilns and Conquerors, Chinese Ceramics from the 10th to the 14th Century, 2001
Published:
Priestley & Ferraro, Kilns and Conquerors, Chinese Ceramics from the 10th to the 14th Century, London, 2001, no. 11
Mowry, ‘Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Gordon,’Orientations, March 2004, fig. 1, p. 115
A Yaozhou celadon conical bowl of this rare pattern excavated at the Yaozhou kiln site is illustrated in Song Dai Yaozhou Yao Zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, fig. 88, no. 3, p. 163.
北宋 耀州青磁印花仙人乘鶴紋碗 徑 14.5 厘米
