Northern Celadon Carved Plate
Song Dynasty, 960 - 1127 A.D.,China
Diameter: 18.5cm
A stoneware plate with molded interior band of dense foliage surrounding a center with peonies. Covered with a dark green, finely crackled glaze. The underside is plain with the exception of a single line incised about 1 cm below the rim. The straight foot is partially unglazed, revealing a gray clay body fired to a buff color. There is a circle of glaze centered in the underfoot that has fired to a russet color.
See a deeper bowl with similar pattern published in “Song through 21st Century Eyes, Yaozhou and Qingbai Ceramics” by Rose Kerr. Meijering Art Books, Netherlands, 2009. Fig. 3-50. Another is published in “Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware”, Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 1997. pl. 91.