Finely and crisply potted with broad flaring sides raised on a narrow foot, the interior decorated with an elaborate and crisp large peony blossom issuing from a leafy stem amid curling leaves, all enclosed within an incised circle leaving the border below the mouth rim plain, covered overall with a dark olive-green glaze.Diameter 12.6cm Height 5cmProvenance: from Private English collection, Hampshire, Bowls of slightly smaller size and with peony floral designs are published in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol.I, Tokyo, 1976, no.346 and 348; and another similar-sized bowl from the Palace Museum, Beijing, in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty I, Hong Kong, 1996, p.133, no.119. A bowl with similarly carved peonies but with intertwined stems, formerly in the John S.Nowell Collection and the Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol.I, London, 1994, no.431. A much larger bowl (30.5cm diam.) with three entwined similar peony sprays was sold in our London rooms, 16 May 2013, lot