Lot 64
64
SONG CERAMICS
A SMALL RUSSET-BROWN-GLAZED BOWL

Details
A SMALL RUSSET-BROWN-GLAZED BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

The tapering bulbous body with incurved mouth, covered inside and out with a russet-surfaced dark brown glaze shading to black where the glaze pools in droplets and ending in an irregular line just above the edge of the slightly convex base exposing the wheel-turned porcelaneous body
3 7/8in. (10cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the bowl of this shape and size and with similar glaze described as of Cizhou type from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, included in the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996, and illustrated by Robert Mowry in the Catalogue, pp. 126-127, no. 26