JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Dark-glazed bowls of this type, with large, evenly spaced russet splashes, usually numbering between three and five, were popular wares produced at various Cizhou-type kilns in the north in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A related Jin dynasty russet-splashed bowl, but of larger size (19.4 cm.), from the collection of R. Hatfield Ellsworth, is illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, p. 155, no. 48.