each of lotus form with deep rounded sides rising to an incurved rim, the sides molded with concentric layers of overlapping petals, the shoulder applied to one side with a small loop handle, covered overall with a thick sea-green glaze, the base burnt orange in the firing (2)

Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN, (1896-1984), acquired in China in the mid-1940s.
Sotheby's New York, 18th November 1982, lot 85.
Kaikodo, New York. 

Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, cat. no. 119. 

Both in good general condition with small glaze flakes to the tips of the rim. One with a 3mm glaze gap to one side, both with other minor firing imperfections. The color of the glaze is slightly richer than in the illustration in the printed catalog.
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