A RARE CARVED 'YAOZHOU' CELADON DISH NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH/ 12TH CENTURY the slightly concave inside, with a prominent rolled rim that provides a groove underneath for safe handling, the outside angled and tapering to a short narrow foot, carved with a fanciful flower spray with a large trefoil bloom and curling fronds of leaves, all with combed detail, asymmetrically arranged and evenly spaced to fill the centre, while the rim and outside are left plain, the olive-green glaze leaving only the footring and a patch on the base free where the body has fired a yellowish brown in Japanese ribbon-tied paulownia-wood box and cover, lined and fitted with purple silk and covered with a matching silk cushion, ribbon-tied paulownia-wood outer box and cover, and brown cotton furoshiki with inscribed wooden tag 18.8cm., 7 3/8 in.
A RARE CARVED 'YAOZHOU' CELADON DISH NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH/ 12TH CENTURY the slightly concave inside, with a prominent rolled rim that provides a groove underneath for safe handling, the outside angled and tapering to a short narrow foot, carved with a fanciful flower spray with a large trefoil bloom and curling fronds of leaves, all with combed detail, asymmetrically arranged and evenly spaced to fill the centre, while the rim and outside are left plain, the olive-green glaze leaving only the footring and a patch on the base free where the body has fired a yellowish brown in Japanese ribbon-tied paulownia-wood box and cover, lined and fitted with purple silk and covered with a matching silk cushion, ribbon-tied paulownia-wood outer box and cover, and brown cotton furoshiki with inscribed wooden tag 18.8cm., 7 3/8 in.
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