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A FINELY CARVED CIZHOU CREAM-GLAZED GREY
STONEWARE ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
Song-Jin Dynasty (960-1234)
The exterior rounded sides plain under a creamy-white glaze, the
interior with an engraved and combed design of two blossoming
lotus and two pads at the well above a multi-petalled flower head
within a double circle at the center, the glaze pooling above the tall
grey stoneware foot and revealing the white chalky pigment under
the clear glaze, the foot neatly cut and unglazed.
8 1/2in (21.6cm) diameter

$6,000 - 8,000

宋至金 磁州窯白釉刻蓮花紋盌

For a similar sized bowl with lotus decoration incised on a
combed ground but lacking the central flower-head, see Gugong
Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Porcelain of the Song
Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 233, no. 210. For a very similar
bowl dated Jin-Yuan dynasty formerly in the Stephen Junkunc,
III, (1904-1978) collection, see Christie’s, New York, 13-14
September 2018, lot 1158; for another similar bowl with a single
lotus spray dated Northern Song-Jin Dynasty see Christie’s, New
York, Masterpieces of Cizhou Ware: The Linyushanren Collection,
Part IV, 13 September 2020, lot 840.

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