Green Glazed ‘Four Fish’ Moulded Bowl

Finely potted with steep rounded sides rising to a gently everted rim, the interior elaborately moulded with four fish swimming amidst dense foaming waves, the exterior decorated with the typical radiating ribbed design often seen on Yaozhou ware bowls of this form, covered overall with a pale olive-green glaze.

• A similar yaozhou four fish bowl is in the British Museum Collection, London. Accession number: PDF297.

Provenance:
– Private Japanese Collection.
– Kusaka Shogado, Tokyo, Japan.