TWO MOULDED AND INSCRIBED YAOZHOU CONICAL BOWLS

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

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TWO MOULDED AND INSCRIBED YAOZHOU CONICAL BOWLS
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The first bowl is moulded with a single spray of peony, the blossom upholding a plaque inscribed with the characters Da guan, ‘flourishing’, covered with a glaze of deep greyisholive tone; the other bowl is moulded with a phoenix grasping in its beak a large lotus spray enclosing a cartouche inscribed with the characters Gao Jia, ‘Gao Family’, applied with a glaze of deep sea-green tone.

3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm.); 5 in. (12.5 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Compare to a Yaozhou bowl sharing the same Da guan mark and design, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 687. A Yaozhou shard bearing these two characters is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, p. 221, fig. 76. Another bowl, moulded with the same Gao Jia inscription and design, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 30 March 2006, lot 38.

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