SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A CIZHOU-TYPE WHITE-RIMMED BLACKISH-BROWN-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL
SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl has shallow, flared sides covered inside and out with a blackish-brown glaze ending in a neat line at the edge of the white border at the rim.
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) diameter, box

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, December 1943.
Myron S. Falk, Jr. Collection, no. 111.
The Falk Collection Part I; Christie's New York, 20 September 2001, lot 80.

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Lot Essay

Compare the very similar bowl from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp. 132-33, no. 31, where the author states that the white rim on bowls of this type was inspired by the silver bands affixed to Ding and other 'aristocratic' wares of the Song dynasty. The author further notes that this practice of imitating silver or gold bands on ceramic vessels began at least as early as the Han dynasty.

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