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A FINE YAOZHOU CELADON-GLAZED ‘FOUR FISH’ A RARE QINGBAI-GLAZED ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM-BUD’
MOULDED BOWL LOBED STEM CUP
Northern Song Dynasty Song Dynasty
Delicately potted with steep sloping sides rising to a slightly-everted rim, Delicately potted with a foliate rim supported on a short flaring foot, the
the interior elaborately moulded with four scaly fish swimming amidst lobed body moulded with radiating chrysanthemum petals, a flower
dense foaming waves, a seashell at the centre, the exterior with radiating head to the interior, all covered under a lustrous glaze of bluish-green
ribbed design, all under a thin pale olive-green glaze, fitted box. tone, fitted box.
11.7cm (4 5/8in) diam. (2). 11cm (4 3/8in) diam. (2).

£2,500 - 3,500 £3,000 - 5,000
CNY22,000 - 31,000 CNY27,000 - 45,000

北宋 耀州窯青釉印海水瑞獸紋盌 宋 青白釉菊瓣盃

Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong
circa 1980s-1990s circa 1980s-1990s

來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港 來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港

Compare a similar pair of Yaozhou celadon-glazed bowls, Northern
Song dynasty, illustrated by R.Scott, Percival David Foundation of
Chinese Art, London, 1989, p.44, no.27. Another related Yaozhou
celadon-glazed bowl, similarly decorated with fish on a ground of
waves, but without a shell at the centre, is illustrated in Song Ceramics
from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp.200-201, no.82.

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