A JIZHOU STENCIL-DECORATED TEA BOWL

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A JIZHOU STENCIL-DECORATED TEA BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

Decorated on the interior with the use of stencils with a pair of phoenix in flight separated by a row of three prunus blossoms, all below the finger-grooved band at the rim and reserved in chocolate brown against the ground of finely mottled yellowish-beige and brown, the brown glaze on the exterior splashed in yellowish beige ending in an irregular line above the tapered, wedge-shaped foot to expose the granular, buff ware (some restoration)
4½in. (11.4cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Compare a slightly larger bowl with similar decoration included in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, Bath, England, 1993, vol. I: Chinese Ceramics, and illustrated by Brian McElney in the Catalogue, p. 158, no. 112