Lot Essay
Although best known for their superb celadon-glazed stonewares, the Yaozhou kilns also produced outstanding black and brown-glazed wares such as this very rare and charming bowl spiritedly decorated with splashes of rust-brown. Excavations in 1973 at the Huangpu kiln complex in Tongquan, Yaozhou county, revealed shards with rust-brown decoration identical to that on the present lot, confirming its exact place of manufacture; see Zhou Zhenxi and Lu Jianguo,'Yaozhouyao yizhi diaocha fajue xin shouhuo,' Kaogu yu wenwu 3 (1980); p.56, fig. 2, no. 4.
A dark brown-glazed bowl of the exact same shape as the present lot, but of slightly smaller size and lacking the rust-brown splashes, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 10, Yaozho Yao, Shanghai, 1985, no. 37.
A dark brown-glazed bowl of the exact same shape as the present lot, but of slightly smaller size and lacking the rust-brown splashes, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 10, Yaozho Yao, Shanghai, 1985, no. 37.