ZETTERQUIST  GALLERIES

Two Xingyao Shallow Bowls
Late Tang Dynasty, 9th c. A.D., China

Diameter: 14.5cm

A Xing-yao shallow bowl with pale porcelaineous stoneware clay body, and an evenly coated translucent glaze that pools to feint bluish color. Sitting on a wide, shallow foot-rim, unglazed and with small areas of burial debris.

These pieces were often made for export and have been found off the coast of Sumatra in trade ship excavations.
A similar example from the Carl Kempe Collection is published in “Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection”, Stockholm, 1964. pg. 109, pl. 323.

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Provenance:

From a Japanese Collection.