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2. A Yaozhou Celadon Bowl Moulded W ith A Daoist Immortal
Riding On A Crane
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 with a lustrous olive-green glaze, the edge of the small
ring foot unglazed revealing the fine gray stoneware.
Diameter 5 ⁄4 inches (14.5 cm)
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From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, San Francisco
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, p. 115, fig. 1.

J. J. Lally & Co., The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon: Chinese
Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 2009, no. 15

A Yaozhou celadon conical bowl of this rare pattern excavated at the Yaozhou kiln site is illustrated in Song dai yaozhou
yaozhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, p. 163, fig. 88, no. 3.

北宋 耀州青瓷印花仙人乘鶴紋碗 徑 14.5 厘米

3. A Carved Yaozhou Celadon Small Dish
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)

with gently rounded shallow sides divided into six petal-lobes by evenly spaced fillets of clay on the
interior below notches at the rim, the wide flat center freely carved and combed with stylized waves
encircling a central medallion of a flower spray, the underside plain, the glaze of characteristic olive
tone, pooling darker in the recesses of the carving to emphasize the design, the slightly rounded
base unglazed around the recessed rimless foot, the exposed stoneware fired reddish-brown.
Diameter 5 ⁄4 inches (13.3 cm)
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A less elaborately carved Yaozhou celadon dish of similar form, carved with similar wave pattern but lacking the floral
medallion and without the petal-lobed segmentation of the sides, discovered in a Southern Song hoard at Jinyucun, Suining,
Sichuan province in 1991, is illustrated in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition entitled Fūlin sareta Nansō toji ten (Newly
Discovered Southern Song Ceramics: A Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”), Tokyo, 1998, p. 98, no. 118.
Another plain-rim Yaozhou celadon dish of this type carved with wave pattern in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in
Zhongguo taoci quanji (7) Song, shang (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics, Vol. 7, Song, I), Shanghai, 2000, p. 112,
no. 99, with caption on p. 245; another is illustrated in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics exhibition entitled Yōshū-yō no
seiji (Celadon of Yaozhou Ware), Osaka, 1991, p. 14, no. 34; and another is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 449.
宋 耀州青瓷刻花水波花卉紋碟 徑 13.3 厘米