A FINE AND RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL AND DOMED COVER

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A FINE AND RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON BOWL AND DOMED COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

The deep bowl with rounded sides freely carved to the exterior with a pair of blooms issuing from between leafy branches, the cover similarly carved with a single central bloom and leafy branches at the four compass points beneath a moulded finial, covered in an attractive olive green glaze pooling to a darker tone in the recesses, all resting on an unglazed wedge-shaped foot exposing the grey body--3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high, box

拍品专文

Cf. three yaozhou celadon covered bowls of this shape and size carved with chrysanthemum sprigs, one in the Umezawa Gallery, Japan illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, pl. 344; another illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. vol. 12, pl. 193; the last is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, fig. 94