Lot 704. A carved Yaozhou dish, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 7 3/8 in. (18.9 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2016

The dish is carved on the interior with a lotus flower borne on a large lotus leaf, within a fluted quatrefoil panel bordered by floral scrolls, and is covered with an olive-green glaze with areas of crackling, box.

Provenance: Kochukyo, Tokyo

Literature: Kochukyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1998, no. 38. 
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 52-53, no. 12. 
Rosemary Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’,Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 16. 

Exhibited: Kochukyo, Tokyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), 2 to 4 October 1998. 
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.

Notes: The present dish, with its attractive pale olive-green glaze, is a classic example of fine Yaozhou ware. A nearly identical dish is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 154, no. 140, where it is suggested that the quatrefoil panel design is typical of Jin dynasty Yaozhou wares. A Yaozhou dish with a similar carved design, but with a buffalo in the central panel, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3122. 

Christie's. The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: The Linyushanren Collection, Part II, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza