With widely flared sides, the interior freely carved with two boys amidst highly stylized foliate scroll with feathery leaves and rouletted details, covered overall with a glaze of pale azure tone that continues over the tapered foot to partially cover the unglazed base burnt light brown in the firing.

Provenance: Bluett, London, September 1989.

Literature: Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 19b. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2007