A Russet-Splashed Black-Glazed Stoneware Bowl

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, LATE 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Details

A Russet-Splashed Black-Glazed Stoneware Bowl
Northern Song/Jin dynasty, late 11th-12th century
Of Cizhou type, the conical sides angling slightly below the gently everted rim, covered with a black glaze liberally splashed in russet on the interior and exterior where the glaze falls in an irregular line atop a matte brownish glaze which stops well above the foot to expose the ware of off-white color
4 3/4in. (12.1cm.) diam.
Falk Collection no. 123.

Provenance

C.T. Loo, New York, January 1955.

Lot Essay

Two similar bowls are illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, nos. 38a and b, and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 1, p. 258, no. 470. Another very similar bowl is illustrated in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, no. 34, where it is cited that similar bowls were excavated at the Cizhou kiln site in Guantai, Hebei province, in a stratum dated to the Northern Song dynasty.

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