The bowl is finely potted with rounded sides, supported on a very low footrim. The exterior is incised with three swiftly-drawn
baoxiang
flowerheads separated by foliage. The interior is incised in the centre with an abstract water plant-like element on an overall ground of extremely fine combing. A grey-green glaze is applied overall, including the underside of the base, leaving the fired body showing brown through the thinning glaze on the small footrim, which also shows three spur-marks.
Provenance:
Priestley & Ferraro, 'Chinese and Korean Ceramics and Works of Art', November 2019, no. 19
For a closely-related incised cup, see
The Hundred Relic Collection of the
Gangjin
Celadon Museum
, no. 68, p. 130, and for another in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see Yun Yong-i,
Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue
, p.65- 66, where the author suggests that it was made at
Yuch’on-ri
kilns, Puan.