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855 A MOLDED AND CARVED YAOZHOU 北宋ǭ耀州窯青釉内印童子外劃花草紋盌
CELADON `BOYS’ BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The bowl with notched rim is molded on the interior with
three boys swinging playfully from boughs of jagged leaves and
peony buds. The exterior is freely carved with a loose pattern The complex design on the present bowl, combining molded
of foliate motifs. The bowl is covered overall with a glaze of decoration on the interior and carved decoration on the exterior,
olive-green tone. as well as the large size, are extremely rare.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., cloth box
Compare the smaller Yaozhou bowl decorated on the interior with
$20,000-30,000 boys and lotus, but with plain exterior, illustrated by R. Krahl in
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994,
PROVENANCE:
p. 238, no. 427. See, also, the small conical bowl molded with boys
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3668.
amidst a foliate design on the interior, also with plain exterior, in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I),
Hong Kong, 1996, p. 128, no. 114.

854 A MOLDED YAOZHOU CELADON 北宋ǭ十一 十Հ世紀ǭ
‘DUCK AND LOTUS’ BOWL AND 耀州窯青釉印花鴨戲蓮塘紋盌及盤प一։
A SAUCER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY Ϝ源
壺中居
東京
年
The petal-lobed bowl is decorated with a band of swimming ducks
and lotus encircling a central floral medallion beneath leafy scroll. 藍理捷
紐約
The saucer has an upturned rim and is similarly decorated on the
interior with a band of ducks swimming amidst stylized waves, A Yaozhou celadon bowl of this rare form impressed with the
lotus and sagittaria, which surround the central medallion with same design, from the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, is illustrated in
a blossoming lotus stem. Both are covered overall with a glossy, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 108, no. 147.
olive-green glaze. Another petal-lobed Yaozhou bowl with a closely related pattern
is illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1968,
Cup: 4 in. (10 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2)
pl. A26, and by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A.
Saucer: 5¡ in. (13.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 8h. Compare, also, small Yaozhou
$15,000-25,000 bowls molded with very similar patterns discovered at the Yaozhou
kiln sites in Huangpu, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Song dai
PROVENANCE:
Yaozhou yaozhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period),
Kochukyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1993.
Beijing, 1998, pl. 41-3 and 41-4, with line drawings on p. 172,
J. J. Lally & Co., New York.
pl. 172-8 and 172-9 and descriptions on p. 173.
A very similar Yaozhou celadon saucer is illustrated by J. Ayers in
The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, vol. II, Chinese and Korean
Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1964, pl. LI, D146, and by J. Wirgin,
op. cit., pl. 10f. Another Yaozhou celadon saucer of closely related
form but with a raised ring at the center is illustrated by R. Hobson
in Catalogue of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. II, pl. LII, B176.

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