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A Small Carved Yaozhou Celadon Dish
Northern Song dynasty
The dish thinly potted with subtly curving walls rising to a rounded rim
and the well delicately carved with an abstracted design of crashing
waves, the soft green glaze pooling to a darker hue in the carving and
continuing onto the outer edges of the flat base, the unglazed portions
including a circular depression at the center burnt to a warm brown
from firing.
5 1/4in (13.5cm) diameter
$7,000 - 9,000

Provenance
Christie’s, New York, Sale 1976, 19 March 2008, lot 535

Property from a Japanese Private Collection

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A chocolate brown glazed stoneware bowl with
white slip-decorated rim
Northern Song dynasty, 11th/12th century
Its deep curving well finished with a notched edge to the flared rim

covered in a white slip in contrast to the dark brown glaze applied to

the well and exterior wall, the glaze stopping above the tall foot with

shallow recessed base, the foot pad showing chance accumulations

of brown glaze.

4 3/4in (12cm) diameter

$6,000 - 8,000

For similar white slip rims on brown glazed wares of Cizhou type from
the Northern Song period, see Robert Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell,
and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics,
400-1400, 1996, cat. nos. 31 and 32, pp. 132-135.

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