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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
2330
A YAOZHOU CELADON MOLDED CONICAL
BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH
CENTURY

The interior is molded with two large
peony blossoms borne on leafy stems, and
the exterior is carved with simplifed petals
rising to the slightly everted rim. The bowl
is covered overall with a glaze of olive-green
color.
7√ in. (20 cm.) diam.

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

The Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007)
Collection, and thence by descent to the
present owner.

The type of large, multi-petaled peonies molded
on this bowl are described as being of beehive
shape. A similar Yaozhou celadon bowl of
slightly larger size (21.3 cm.) with the same
decoration, dated Jin dynasty, 12th century,
in the Art Institute of Chicago, is illustrated by
Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang in Ice and
Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987, p. 159, no.
61, where a fragment of a Yaozhou bowl with
a similar fower on a curved stem unearthed at
the Huangbaozhen kiln site is illustrated, p. 158,
fg. 61a.

北宋／金
耀州窯青釉模印牡丹紋笠式盌

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