Lot 77
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A JIANYAO TEABOWL

Details
A JIANYAO TEABOWL
SONG DYNASTY

Of conical form rising from a shallow cylindrical foot, covered in a thick, streaked blackish-blue and toffee-brown glaze thinning to matte brown at the rim and pooling around the exposed granular ware burnt pale-brown in the firing--4 7/8in. (12.3cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar bowl illustrated by Liu, Guci Yanjin, Taiwan, 1988, p. 136 (top right); another in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford illustrated by Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, pl. 257; and several in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, nos. 674-676