Description: Based on a short spreading foot, this rare tea bowl is rising to conical sides to a flared rim. The interior is decorated in relief with two little babies amongst winding branches and flowers beneath the finely crackled green glaze. Hence, this fine piece of celadon is widely called “Baby Bowl”.
Style of: Northern Song (11th / 12th century), Origin: Linru (in Honan), age determination uncertain
Diameter: 12.5 cm
M.Tregear, La Céramique Song, pg.108, no.126. Sotheby’s Catalogue 9th June 1987, lot 195