Large bowl with chrysanthemums and peonies. Stoneware, porcelain-type, with incised and moulded decoration and celadon glaze. Longquan ware 龍泉窯. Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區. Yuan dynasty, AD 1300–1368. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF 277. British Museum © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 185 mm. Diameter: 426 mm. Longquan stoneware bowl with rounded sides. The bowl has thick grey-green glaze. There is a moulded chrysanthemum in the centre surrounded by a carved wide band of vertical grooves and a peony scroll, petal panels carved and incised on the exterior, and a vegetal scroll and an angular meander border at the rim.

Inside, this large bowl is decorated with a chrysanthemum flower and peonies incised into the cavetto. Outside it is carved with petals. Bowls of this type were produced in bulk at Longquan and shipped to the Middle East and countries in South-east Asia and India. 

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 7 of 12, Tokyo, Kodansha ltd, 1975

Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977 

Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1997