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A RARE YUEYAO INCISED OVAL BOWL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Raised on a ring foot, the oval bowl has fared sides that rise to the rim notched
as four petals and is incised in the interior with lotus leaves. The whole is
covered in a crackle-sufused glaze of olive tone.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Japan prior to 1997.
A Yueyao petal-lobed dish of similar shape but slightly smaller size (10.8 cm.)
is in the collection of the Shanghai Museum and is published in Zhongguo
taoci quanji - 4 - Yue ware, Shanghai, 1981, no. 135.
唐 越窯刻荷葉紋海棠盌
(interior)
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