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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION
A CARVED ‘YAOZHOU’ CELADON ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
finely potted with deep rounded sides supported on a
straight foot, crisply carved around the exterior with four
rows of overlapping petals resembling a lotus flower, applied
overall with an attractive olive-green glaze pooling to a
deeper tone in the recessed areas stopping around the foot,
the neatly cut footrim left unglazed revealing a smooth light
grey ware
15 cm, 5⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3202.

‡ £ 30,000-40,000
HK$ 308,000-411,000 US$ 39,300-52,500
北宋 耀州窰青釉蓮瓣紋盌
來源
香港佳士得2014年11月26日，編號3202

Crisply carved on the exterior with rows of lotus petals, bowls
of this type were made at the Yaozhou kilns at Huangpu,
Tongchuan, Shaanxi province from the Five Dynasties period
(907-960) through the middle of the Song dynasty (960-
1279). A closely related bowl in the Meiyintang collection, is
illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyin-
tang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, pl. 147, together
with a slightly larger one, pl. 1477; and another in the British
Museum, London, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The
World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 5, pl. 80. See also
two bowls of this type recovered from the Yaozhou kiln site,
illustrated in Songdai Yaozhou yaozhi [The Yaozhou kiln site
of the Song period], Beijing, 1998, col. pl. IV, fig. 1 and pl. 19,
fig. 5; and another excavated in Pin county, Shaanxi province,
illustrated in Yaoci tulu [Catalogue of Yao ware], Beijing,
1956, pl. 12.

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