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A LARGE ‘YAOZHOU’ CARVED ‘WAVE’
DEEP BOWL
JIN DYNASTY
the steep rounded sides rising from a short
tapered foot to a groove below the lipped rim,
the interior freely carved with five cresting
waves amid further swirling water, the
undulating movement enhanced with crisply
combed arced lines, the exterior with an incised
triple-line band below the rim, covered overall
with a lustrous olive-green glaze, pooling to a
dark green in the recesses, a ring to the interior
and the foot ring unglazed revealing the pale
gray body
Diameter 7¼ in., 18.4 cm
Bowls of this distinctive form were created to
be used as warmers. the depth of the basin
and unglazed central ring were specific features
designed to accommodate a wine ewer. see a
closely related foliate-motif bowl with its ewer
in the palace museum, Beijing, published in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty
(I), hong Kong, 1996, pl. 102, together with a
slightly smaller bowl, pl. 103.
another bowl of this type, in the tokyo national
museum, tokyo, was included in the exhibition
The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, osaka
museum of oriental Ceramics, osaka, 1997,
cat. no. 96 along with a fragment of a bowl with
the same wave pattern as the present example,
from the Yaozhou Ware museum, ibid., cat.
no. 169. see also a kiln waster consisting of a
similar bowl with remains of a second, smaller
bowl inside it, excavated from the kiln site and
illustrated in The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song
Period, Beijing, 1998, col. pl. 3, fig. 2, together
with fragmentary bowls of this form with
different incised designs, pls 30 and 31.
$ 30,000-50,000

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