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C02
Dish with petal dip glaze
Song dynasty, 12th century
diameter 19.2cm

 
Stoneware dish, the interior painted with a white slip and then dipped in a dark bluish-brown glaze to form a six-petal design with a central six-pointed star. Northern brown ware.
 

ex: Robert H Ellsworth Ltd, New York, 1976, and brought to Australia by Jane Carnegie

published: Jane Carnegie, Oriental art: Works of art from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia, Melbourne, May 1981, page 21, number 34 (exhibition catalogue)