A large and superbly painted 🐈and🍃 incised Cizhou 'peony and butterfly' bowl, 

Song dynasty

宋 磁州褐彩劃牡丹蝴蝶紋缽

sturdily potted with deep rounded sides rising from a splayed foot, the exterior freely and superbly painted in dark-brown and highlighted with incisions with a large peony bloom wreathed by slender leaves and two butterflies fluttering nearby, all against a creamy-white slip and a transparent glaze stopping neatly abo𓄧ve the foot revealing the stoneware body

w. 20 cm