An Unusual Large Cizhou Carved Bowl

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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An Unusual Large Cizhou Carved Bowl
Jin dynasty, 12th century
The deep rounded body raised on a high ring foot covered on the exterior with a dark brown slip and clear glaze ending just at the edge of the everted rim, the interior carved through the white slip with a large ribbon-tied lotus spray below a plain white band at the rim and covered with a transparent glaze
9 7/8in. (25.1cm.) diam.
Falk Collection no. 131.

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, March 1950.

Exhibited

Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600, Indianapolis Museum of Art; New York, China House Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980-1981, no. 37.

Lot Essay

Compare the slightly larger Cizhou bowl (26.9cm.) with dark-glazed exterior and white-slip-covered interior carved with floral decoration under a transparent glaze published in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1988, p. 138, no 554.

The motif of a bouquet of lotus plants tied with a ribbon can be found on an octagonal pillow illustrated by Mino and Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., pl. 37, fig. 90.

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