A Molded 'Yaozhou' Bowl Northern Song Dynasty

of conical form with flaring sides rising gently from a low knife-pared foot, carved on the interior with three scrolling flowerhead roundels issuing stylized leaves, the rounded rim with a stepped groove to the exterior, covered overall in an olive-green glaze pooling in the recesses

The bowl is in overall good condition with a few pinholes to the interior. It appears to have had restoration to one section based on a glossier sheen to parts of the exterior and a slight warpage to the side near the rim.
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The design on this bowl is unusual, although a bowl carved with a similar scroll with two blooms only, excavated at Yanglin, Shaanxi province and now in the Yaozhou Kiln Museum, was included in the exhibition The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1998, cat.no. 92; and another in the exhibition Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat.no. 93. A piece with a related design with blooms with five distinct petals was sold at Christie's New York, 30th November 1983, lot 58.