An Unusual Yaozhou Celadon Bowl and Cover. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 10th-13th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012

The bowl, which is of compressed globular shape, is covered inside and out with a crackle-suffused glaze of greyish-green color that ends in a neat line above the countersunk base, exposing the fine-grained body. The domed cover, with stem finial and everted rim molded as six overturned petals, is covered with a similar glaze that continues just over the edge of the rim. 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam. Estimate $12,000 - $18,000

北宋/金 耀州窰青釉荷葉蓋罐

Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2005. 

Notes: Compare the Yaozhou celadon bowl and cover of similar shape, excavated in 1988 from Liulin, Yaoxian, Shaanxi province, now in the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, p. 77, no. 98, where it is dated Jin dynasty, 12th century, and where it is listed as an important cultural property. Compare, also, the similar bowl and cover, illustrated by B. McElney in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, vol. 1: Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no. 62, p. 104. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part II, 13 September 2012. New York, Rockefeller Plaza