Lot 271
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TWO JIZHOU BOWLS

Details
TWO JIZHOU BOWLS
SONG DYNASTY

One freely painted on the interior in yellowish-buff with two phoenix contesting a flaming pearl, reserved on the dark brown glaze which continues onto the exterior where it ends in an uneven line to expose the buff ware; the other with deep flared sides, covered in a 'tortoiseshell' glaze of yellowish-buff splashes on a dark brown ground, glaze chips to rims--4 1/2 and 4 1/4 in. (11.5 and 10.8cm.) diam., cloth box (2)

Lot Essay

Bowls similarly decorated with phoenix are illustrated in the Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. II, pl. LX, B235 and by Sullivan in the Barlow Collection Catalogue, pl. 123 (c)

An example similar to the 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, Catalogue no. 48