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8. A Longquan Celadon Conical Bowl
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)

very well potted, with straight flaring sides rising from a small ring foot, covered with a lustrous
bluish-green ‘kinuta’ glaze inside and out, pooling thicker around the underside of the rim and in
the shallow recess around the small dome in the center of the bowl, the countersunk base also
very gently domed and fully glazed, the foot rim unglazed and burnt reddish-brown at the margins.

Diameter 6 ⁄16 inches (15.4 cm)
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Similar Longquan celadon bowls discovered in the Southern Song hoard at Jinyucun, Suining, Sichuan province in 1991
are illustrated in the catalogue of the travelling exhibition Fūlin sareta Nansō toji ten (Newly Discovered Southern Song
Ceramics: A Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”), Tokyo, 1998, pp. 40–41, nos. 36–38. Another example, discovered in the
Sinan shipwreck, is illustrated in the catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found Off Sinan Coast, National
Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, fig. 19.
Other examples are published in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (33) Liang song ciqi, xia (The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 33, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty II), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 152, no. 137;
in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Lung-ch’üan, Ko Ware and Other Wares,
Taipei, 1974, nos. 17 and 18; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art,
London, Rev. Ed., 1997, no. 231; in the catalogue of the loan exhibition from China shown at the Baur Foundation, Geneva
and the Cernuschi Museum, Paris, Céladon: Grès des musées de la province du Zhejiang, Chine, Paris, 2005, p. 179, no. 78,
described as a douli wan (hat-shaped bowl); and in the Nezu Museum exhibition catalogue, Nansō no seiji: sora o utsusu
utsuwa (Heavenly Blue: Southern Song Celadons), Tokyo, 2010, p. 60, no. 33, from the collection of the Nezu Museum, and
p. 61, no. 34, from the collection of Rokuon-ji Temple, Kyoto.
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