Jin Dynasty
The thinly potted bowl with a plain exterior and typical olive teardrop trails, the interior crisply moulded in six panels each with an upright cluster of floral sprays including daisy, peony and camellia, a strip of corroded metal adhering at one point to the unglazed biscuit rim, fitted box. 19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. (2).

Footnotes

金定窯白釉印花卉紋盌

Provenance: Cheng Te-k'un, prior to October 1950
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1950
Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 16
Acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 3 February 2010, no.2896
The Reid Collection

來源：
1950年10月前為Cheng Te-k'un先生收藏
倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號TT27
2002年11月11日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品16號
於2010年2月3日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，編號2896
Reid 收藏

For a very similar bowl Dingyao bowl, early 13th century, see Teiyo hakuji, Tokyo, 1983, no.133. For another similarly moulded bowl from the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, but with a central medallion of two fish, see B.McElney, Inaugural Exhibition, vol.1 Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no.88. Another related white glazed bowl with floral patterns in six sections around the interior, Song dynasty, is illustrated in Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pp.118-119, pl.75.

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