A MARBLE-GLAZED LOBED DISH NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the octagonally lobed shallow curved sides rising from a gently concave base to an everted foliate lipped rim, the interior freely decorated with a swirling cream coloured glaze reserved on an olive-brown ground in imitation of marble, the exterior glazed olive-brown 

A lobed dish of this type is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inventory no. C.349-1921.