A good Longxuan lotus bowl, Southern Song, 1127/1279, covered in an unctuous greenish blue, widely crackled glaze, the exterior carved with a series of petals, burnt orange foot. Diameter 14.8 cm. Provenance: Connor Galleries, Mossvale. See Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Serai Museum, Istanbul, 1, 1986, colour pl 1, for a very similar example