A Longquan celadon 'lotus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty | 南宋 龍泉青釉蓮瓣盌

For related bowls attributed to the Southern Song dynasty and excavated in Liaoning from the Jinyucun Hoard, now in the Liaoning Museum, see Song Yun: Sichuan Yao Cang Wenwu Jicui [The Charm of Song: Cultural Artefacts from Hoards in Sichuan], Beijing, 2006, pp. 30-33. See also a related bowl published in the Special Exhibition: Sensei, Bansei and Celadon of Longquan Yao, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Osaka, 1996, cat. no. 45; another example complete with its cover, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang collects ion, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 546; and a third, formerly in the collects ion of Dr Carl Kempe, first sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2008, lot 530, and again in these rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 3693.