Northern Celadon Carved Plate, Song Dynasty (960 – 1127), Dia. 18.5 cm
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

Northern Celadon Carved Plate, Song Dynasty (960 – 1127), Dia. 18.5 cm
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