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[PRIVATE TAIWANESE COLLECTION] CHINESE YAOZHOU CELADON-GLAZED CARVED 'LOTUS' BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
£5,796
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
北宋 耀州窰青釉刻纏枝蓮紋碗
potted with flared sides rising from a narrow short foot to a lipped rim, moulded with a raised horizontal rib underneath the mouth, carved boldly on the interior with a lotus stalk with blossom and broad leaf, covered overall with a glossy glaze of olive-green tone, the unglazed foot exposing the russet-grey body
Dimensions
19cm diameter
Provenance
Private Taiwanese collection
Exhibited: The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008
Published: Cheng Qiren, 玉潤玄光 : 宋元名窯瓷器展 (Splendor of China- Song and Yuan Porcelain), The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008, catalogue no. 19, p. 59
臺灣私人收藏
展覽：「玉潤玄光：宋元名窯瓷器展」，國立歷史博物館，臺北，2008。
著錄：成耆仁著：《玉潤玄光：宋元名窯瓷器展》，臺北：國立歷史博物館，2008，圖版19，頁59。
Footnote
This bowl is a fine example of the Yaozhou ware typical of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Carving was an important method of surface decoration in Yaozhou wares. This bowl began with a smooth body, partially dried (or ‘leather hard’). Using an angled tool, the floral pattern was carved out of the surface in sloping grooves. The glaze was then applied, pooling in the crevices and laying thinly on raised areas. Through firing, the pooled areas grew darker in colour and the thinly glazed areas more transparent, thus creating an illusion of light and shadows in the surface design. See a closely comparable Yaozhou bowl in lotus design, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, museum no. C.114-1929.