Greenware bowl with lotus petals, Longquan kilns, 13th century (1201 - 1300), Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279) - Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368), stoneware, thrown, with carved decoration under a green celadon glaze; glazed base; glazed rim, 7.2 cm height) - 15 cm (diameter). Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust., LI1301.101, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford © The University of Sussex

This bowl, with narrower petals than the other lotus bowl in the Barlow Collection, [LI1301.193], is slightly later than date. Related bowls, excavated from tombs datable to 1274 and 1275, respectively, at the very end of the Southern Song period (1127–1279), have been excavated in Zhejiang province, but their production continued well into the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368).

The bowl has rounded, steeply conical sides and flares at the rim, the narrow foot tapers and the recessed base is pointed. The piece is heavily potted and carved on the outside with slender overlapping lotus petals in relief. The yellowish-green glaze fully covers the piece except for the footring which shows a reddish-brown biscuit.