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Small Yaozhou Bowl with Carved Overlapping Petal design
Song Dynasty, 960-1279 AD, China
Diameter: 11.5 cm
A small deep stoneware bowl with slightly curved sides, small foot and slightly flared rim. The interior is molded with tightly packed spiraling petals around the cavetto, and a central flower in the interior bottom. The exterior is decorated with knife-cut line radiating from the foot.The entire piece is covered with a fine olive green glaze which pools at the foot, and reveals a gray clay body fired to shades of brown.
Provenance:
Eskenazi Ltd., 1973
Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection
Private European Collection

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