The gently sloping sides of each rising from a straight foot to an everted rim, covered to the interior and exterior with an even celadon glaze, the interior with trails of slip to suggest floral petals, inscribed ‘Qingjingtang 74a and 74b respectively.
9cm diameter.
Provenance: Qingjingtang Collection, Lisbon, Portugal.
Literature: Mowry, Robert D, Peace and Quietude – Song Ceramics from the Qingjingtang Collection, p. 316, pl. 17.
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