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The Property of a Western Private Collection
西方私人藏品

6* It is rare to find a Yaozhou dish of such size. For other dishes of similar
peony or other floral design but of the more common dimensions of
A large and rare Yaozhou-type green-glazed ‘peony scroll’ carved approx. 20cm diameter, see Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol.I, Tokyo,
bowl 1976, nos. 346 and 348, and another bowl with fine intertwined stems
Northern Song Dynasty formerly in the John S.Nowell Collection and the Meiyintang Collection is
Finely potted with broad flaring sides rising from a small very slightly illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
stepped foot, the interior carved with two slender overlapping stems Vol.I, London, 1994, no.431.
reaching into the centre of the dish, the stems issuing three luscious
peony blossoms amid elegantly curling leaves, all enclosed within an
incised circle leaving the border beneath the rim undecorated, the
exterior similarly incised with a simple line beneath the rim, all covered
with a greyish-green glaze with a fine craquelure pooling attractively in
the recesses.
30.5cm (12in) diam.
£20,000 - 30,000
HK$240,000 - 350,000 CNY190,000 - 280,000

北宋 耀州窯式青釉刻花牡丹紋碗

Provenance: acquired from Roger Keverne Ltd., London, on 8 June 1999
A Western private collection

來源：1999年6月8日購於倫敦古董商Roger Keverne
西方私人收藏

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