SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JIZHOU PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED TEA BOWL
Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
The slightly rounded conical sides rising from a knife-cut foot ring to the finger-grooved band at the rim, the interior resist-decorated with scattered plum blossoms reserved in reddish brown against a finely variegated buff and brown ground, the exterior with a thin brown glaze over a paler brown slip-glaze ending on the lower body to expose the pale grey ware partially covered with dark reddish-brown wash
4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Among the daring and innovative techniques the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous for is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing designs using paper cut-outs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7.

Compare the very similar bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 171, and the related bowl from the Avery Brundage Collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by R. Mowry, ibid., p. 250, no. 101.