Lot 181
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A JIZHOU SLIP-DECORATED BOWL

Details
A JIZHOU SLIP-DECORATED BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

The flared sides with a finger groove below the rim, freely painted on the interior with a prunus branch and a crescent moon fired to a phosphatic-highlighted buff color against the dark brown glaze which continues onto the exterior to end in an irregular line above the knife-cut foot exposing the stoneware burnt pale red in the firing (foot rim chips)
6½in. (16.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Similar jizhou slip-decorated bowls are included in the Memorial Exhibition of the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, February 13-March 30, 1952, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, p. 79, Catalogue, no. 315; and another is illustrated by Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, no. 118A