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A YAOZHOU CELADON-GLAZED CARVED 'PEONY' SHALLOW BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty

15 May 2025, 10:00 BST
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A YAOZHOU CELADON-GLAZED CARVED 'PEONY' SHALLOW BOWL

Northern Song Dynasty
Finely potted with broad gently curving sides rising from a short, slightly spreading foot to an everted rim, deftly carved in the well with a blossoming peony mantled by scrolling foliage, the fine incisions suggesting veins on the petals and leaves, covered in a rich olive-green glaze pooling to a darker tone in the recessed areas, box. 19.8cm (7 6/8in) diam. (2).

Footnotes

北宋 耀州窯青釉刻花折枝牡丹紋折沿盤

Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21 May 1986, lot 38
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above on 12 February 1986

Published and Illustrated:
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.42-43, no.15

來源:
香港蘇富比,1986年5月21日,拍品編號38
倫敦古董商埃斯卡納齊
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020),雅典和倫敦,從上處獲得於1986年2月12日

展覽著錄:
D.Priestley和M.Flacks,《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》,倫敦,2017年,第42-43頁,編號15

Compare with a similar Yaozhou celadon-glazed carved 'peony' bowl with very similar decoration, in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J.Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl.4 k. Another similar bowl with similar decoration, 12th century, is illustrated in Ceramic Art of the World, vol.12, Tokyo, 1977, no.197. Compare also with a similar bowl illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, Tokyo, 1976, nos.346 and 348; and another similar bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty I, Hong Kong, 1996, p.141, no.127. See also a similar Yaozhou celadon dish, Jin dynasty, with similar design, illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp.216-217, no.90.

See a related Yaozhou celadon-glazed 'Peony' dish, Northern Song dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 12 September 2018, lot 211.

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