A rare 'Yaozhou' celadon-glazed 'geese and peony' bowl, Northern Song / Jin dynasty | 北宋 / 金 耀州窰青釉瑞鵝牡丹紋盌

Susan Chen, Hong Kong, 22nd October 1993.

Marchant, London, 4th July 1994.

English Private Collection.

來源：

陳淑貞，香港，1993年10月22日

馬錢特，倫敦，1994年7月4日

英國私人收藏

Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, cat. no. 34.

展覽:

《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022年，編號34

The present design of two geese with a lotus bouquet in the center is extremely rare. See a related bowl, decorated with mandarin ducks amongst lotus flowers, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 78. A similar bowl, from the collection of Ueno Seiichi, is illustrated in Marvels of Celadon: The Shang Shan Tang Collection of Yaozhou Wares, Chicago, 2019, pl. 24. For a bowl decorated with two cranes amongst bamboo and plum blossoms, see one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song dynasty (I) vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 107.