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A PAIR OF ‘YAOZHOU’ CELADON-GLAZED
DISHES
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

each with shallow lobed sides rising from a short foot, freely
carved to the interior with a central medallion enclosing a duck
swimming amid stylized waves, framed by a band of combed
waves, the exterior with abstract oral sprays, all beneath a
lustrous olive-green glaze (2)
Diameter 6½ in., 16.4 cm

See a closely related dish illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994,
pl. 414, together with a bowl of the same design, pl. 413.
Compare also three Yaozhou bowls with the similar design,
one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the
Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 105, and two illustrated
in Jan Wirgin, ‘Sung Ceramic Designs’, Bulletin of the Museum
of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pls 8c and
8f.

$ 20,000-30,000

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