An Early Chinese Pale Celadon Bowl - Blue Flowers
March 2013 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This is an early Chinese bowl with light celadon glaze with a heavy crackle and grainy finish. The bowl has a design of two large flowers – poppys ? – and four smaller flowers – all executed in a dark underglaze cobalt blue. The design is framed by a double ring of blue and the upper rim also has two blue rings.

The bottom of the bowl has a series of four small flowers in the same dark underglaze cobalt blue – they are connected by vines and leaves...