SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-EARLY 13TH CENTURY

A similarly decorated Jizhou bowl in the collection of the Harvard University Art Museums is illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 237, no. 94. See, also, the similarly decorated Jizhou bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II) – 33 – The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 250, no. 228, and the example in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, San Francisco, 1996, p. 164, no. 301.