JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

Dark-glazed bowls of this type, with large, evenly-spaced russet splashes, usually numbering between three and five, were popular wares produced at various Cizhou-type kilns in the north in the twelth and thirteenth centuries. Compare two related Jin dynasty russet-splashed bowls, the first from the Dr. Robert Barron Collection, the second from the Scheinman Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 147-148, nos. 41 and 42 respectively, and a single example illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 1, p. 73, no. 32.