A Rare Russet-Splashed Blackish-Brown-Glazed Foliate Dish

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

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A Rare Russet-Splashed Blackish-Brown-Glazed Foliate Dish
Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
The body flaring widely from the tall ring foot and then flaring outward to the petal-lobed rim, covered inside and out with a blackish glaze flecked in russet and thinning to pale brown at the rim and on the foot, the interior of the foot also glazed
7¾in. (19.5cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark.
Sotheby's, London, Important Chinese Ceramics, The Property of Mrs Alfred Clark, 25 March 1975, lot 21.

Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 1937, no. 665.
Paris, 1956, no. 78.
Sung Dynasty Wares, Chün and Brown Glazes, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1952, no. 54.
The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1955, no. 69.

Lot Essay

No other dish of this exact form with russet markings appears to be published. A Northern Song dish of this form, covered in a russet-brown glaze or persimmon glaze was included in the O. C. S. exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, op. cit., no. 79 (from the Cunliffe Collection) and another in the Special Exhibition Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1976, no. 102.

This dish is decorated with a balanced, but irregular pattern of small splashes of iron-oxide which creates the attractive effect of small 'partridge-feather' mottles, also seen on a black-glazed conical bowl of the same date, included in the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, 1995-1997, illustrated by R. Mowry, p. 137, no. 34.

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