A VERY RARE MARBLED BOWL EARLY NORTHERN SONG

the low rounded sides of the body rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim, potted from marbled clays of buff and dark brown tone creating an irregular pattern of whorls in imitation of marble with a wide cream clay band at the mouth rim, covered overall with a translucent straw coloured glaze 

Compare a marbled bowl from the Lindberg collection sold in these 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, 28/29th 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, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat.no. 29.