A Yaozhou carved and moulded 'peony and small bird' bowl, Northern Song dynasty | 北宋 耀州窰青釉刻纏枝牡丹紋盌

A Yaozhou carved and moulded 'peony and small bird' bowl

Northern Song dynasty

北宋 耀州窰青釉刻纏枝牡丹紋盌

of steep conical form, rising from a small neat ring foot, finely molded and carved on the interior with a peony stem bearing one large central blossom surrounded by scrolling leaves, with a small bird in flight between two leaves, covered overall in a lustrous pale celadon bubble-suffused glaze pooling in the recesses, the foot unglazed

Diameter 18.3 cm, 7¼ in.