CHINA, SOUTHERN SONG 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. Two Jizhou bowls with similar paper-cut designs of three stylized flowers  on the interior and a 'tortoiseshell’ glaze on the exterior are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – 33 – Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, nos. 218 and 220.