AN UNUSUAL GREEN AND AMBER-GLAZED INCISED BASIN

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AN UNUSUAL GREEN AND AMBER-GLAZED INCISED BASIN
JIN DYNASTY

Of shallow, barrel form supported on a flat base, applied with two continuous bands of bosses on the exterior at the rim and base, decorated in the interior with a freely incised drawing of a large fish amidst leaves and flowerheads picked out in large splashes of amber glaze against a dark green glaze extending over the sides and stopping short of the base to expose the pinkish-buff ware, minor chips to bosses--10 1/2in. (26.6cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 60

Lot Essay

Compare a very similar basin, but incised in the interior with peony, from the Daigo-ji, Kyoto, included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics From Japanese Collections, The Asia Society, New York, 1977, Catalogue no. 17

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 766d35 is consistent with the dating of this lot