SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Among the daring and innovative techniques, for which the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous, is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing these designs see R.D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 36-7

Compare the very similar bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated by J. Fontein and T. Wu in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 171.