Description
Description: Chinese flattened bowl with thick, bluish, opaque Qingbai glaze. The inside of the bowl is decorated with an incised duck swimming in a pond, beneath a water plant. The outside decorated with incised lotus motif, the base bearing a Chinese character drawn in ink. The rim is unglazed, decorated in brown, probably to simulate a metal band.
Dating: Southern Song dynasty.
Size: 16.2 cm diameter
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: See the last four pictures, and read the related Notes here below.
Notes: This and other bowls of this type, with the carved “Duck in a pond” motif, are sharing the same opaque bluish or bluish/greenish glaze and a thick body, features that are usually associated with a Fujian origin. In fact, the first two pictures of the last four ones shown above, are showing a similar bowl and motif, a bit smaller, collected in 1958, now in the collection of the Palace Museum, illustrated in “Porcelains of Yuan Dynasty Collected by the Palace Museum II”. The Museum states that it is of Yuan Dynasty, and produced in kilns of the Fujian Province. The attribution is vaguely mentioning Fujian kilns, not a specific one. But the last two pictures, from “Huzhou Fanshiqiao nansong yizhi chutu wenwu” book, published in 2020, are showing the only example of an excavated bowl of this type that we are aware of, recovered in 2015 from the site of the ancient village of Fanshiqiao, near Huzhou, in the very north of Zhejiang Province. Huzhou is located about 70 km north from Hangzhou, the ancient Lin’an, the capital of Southern Song dynasty. The book dates the bowl, which is 16 cm in diameter, to the Southern Song. For this reason, we are dating the bowl to the Southern Song dynasty.
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