A large Longquan celadon petal-carved bowl, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty, 13th Century. Estimate $25,000 – $35,000. Unsold. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The bowl has deep rounded sides carved on the exterior with a broad band of slender, upright petals, and is covered overall with a glaze of soft sea-green color falling in an irregular line onto the ring foot. The interior of the foot and the base are also glazed. 8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance: Peter Harris Collection, London.
John Sparks, London 1955.
Myron S. Falk, Jr. Collection, no. 205.
The Falk Collection Part I; Christie's New York, 20 September 2001, lot 121.

Exhibited: Exhibition of Art Treasures, B.A.D.A., Grafton Galleries, London, 1928, no. 1262.
Exhibition of Celadon Wares, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, October 1947, no. 25. 

Notes: As well as having a domestic purpose, bowls of this type were made for export, as evidenced by examples recovered from a shipwreck off the Korean coast, "probably on its way to Japan, in or shortly after AD 1323," illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 15 top and bottom. Compare a similar bowl of smaller size (6 7/8 in.) illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 543.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 15 - 16 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza