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A fine Yaozhou celadon tea bowl, late northern Song to early…
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Melbourne
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16-Jun-2015
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A fine Yaozhou celadon tea bowl, late northern Song to early Jin dynasty, circa. 12th century, the interior centre well moulded with two floral sprays emerging from a leafy stem amidst combed waves of rippling water around the rounded sides rising to an everted rim, covered with a thick lustrous olive-green glaze. Fitted box. For a similar Yaozhou tea bowl see Sotheby's New York, 16/09/2014, lot 110. Another similar bowl see Victoria and Albert museum (museum number:C.504-1919). In addition, please see R. L. Hobson, The George Eumoforpoulos Collection, vol. II, pl. LIV, no. B192 and again in Edgar E. Bluett, The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese pottery and Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. 7, for a very similar example. . Provenance: An Melbourne Private Collection
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