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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION (another view)

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A MOLDED YAOZHOU CELADON CONICAL BOWL

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl with widely fared sides is molded on the interior with three peonies
borne on leafy stems and the exterior is carved with overlapping petals that
rise from the small foot and stop below the rim. The bowl is covered overall
with a greyish olive-green glaze that pools in the recesses.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Ruth Dreyfus Collection, no. 151.
John Sparks, Ltd., London.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within the
family.

EXHIBITED

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

A Yaozhou celadon bowl with similar decoration on the interior is illustrated
in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art,
1994, pp. 184-85, no. 74.
北宋/金 耀州窯印花牡丹紋盌