A FINE LONGQUAN BOWL FROM THE CLARK COLLECTION

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Schätzpreis:

13.000 €

Description:

China, Song dynasty
D. 13,2 cm
Finely potted, the deep rounded sides rising from a short, slightly tapered foot, the exterior subtly molded with slender overlapping lotus petals, covered overall with a sea-green glaze, save for the unglazed foot ring revealing the gray stoneware body burnt.
From an important southern German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, this bowl is from the Alfred and Ivy Clark collection, no. 470, old label on the bottom
A closely related bowl, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 134; one from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, London, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Section 7, London, 1997, pl. A211; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th November 2011, lot 3007. Several lotus bowls of this type of various sizes are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pls. 539-544, where the author notes that the finest Longquan wares were produced in the Southern Song period and that while this type of bowl was produced in large qualities during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the earlier bowls are distinguished by their clarity of glaze and finely carved petals (see p. 290)
Except for a small chip inside at the mouth well preserved

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