A rare Yaozhou compressed circular bowl, Tang/Five Dynasties, 10th century, decorated with areas of brown glaze over a white slip, possibly Huangpu kiln, Yaozhou county, 5.7 x 7.5 cm (rim), fitted box. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, late 1990's. See 'Masterpieces of Yaozhou ware', the Museum of Oriental Ceramics' Osaka, 1997, cat no 11, pa17 for a similar bowl (from the Tokyo National); Also: Mowry 'Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers', Harvard 1996, cat no 65, pp184 & 185