A RARE MARBLED BOWL LIAO – JIN DYNASTY

well potted from marbled clays of pale buff and dark brown tone forming an dense pattern of irregular whorls, the marbled ware with deep rounded sides supported on a gently countersunk base and rising to a broad straight rim applied with a creamy-white slip

Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, prior to 1990.

Apart from a minor hairline crack to the rim measuring approx 1.5 cm, the bowl is in good condition with just typical bruising and surface wear, especially to the rim.
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Compare a marbled bowl from the Lindberg Collection sold in our London rooms, 12th December 1978, lot 154; and a bowl, also with a plain white rim but with a more regulated marbled pattern, from the Fuller Collection, sold at Christie's London, 28th/29th June 1965, lot 264. See also a bowl in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, included in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, Bath, 1993, cat. no. 72; and one included in the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art exhibition Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 29.