A 'YAOZHOU' PERSIMMON-GLAZED BOWL NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

elegantly potted, of shallow conical form, supported on a neatly cut, slightly splayed foot, covered overall with a glossy persimmon-coloured glaze, the knife-pared foot left unglazed revealing a smooth pale greyish-brown stoneware body

The bowl is in good overall condition. There is a very minute nick to the rim applied with a brown wash, possibly original to the piece. There are some light scratches to the underside of the bowl. The surface glaze is partly lustrous, predominantly on the interior.
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Best known for their celadon-glazed stonewares, the 'Yaozhou' kilns also made fine stonewares with persimmon glazes, probably inspired by contemporaneous russet-glazed 'Ding' wares. A larger persimmon-coloured 'Yaozhou' bowl from the Scheinman collection was included in the exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, cat.no. 20. See also two related Yaozhou bowls with persimmon glaze, included in the exhibition The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, cat.nos.47-48; and two examples sold in our New York rooms, 28th November 1994, lot 260, and in our London rooms, 12th November 2003, lot 43, from the Muwen Tang Collection.