NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

細節

A Rare 'Numbered' Junyao Foliate-Rim Tripod Bulb Bowl
Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
The shallow, stoutly potted sides molded as six petal lobes rising from a correspondingly lobed apron joining the three ruyi-head cabriole supports and rising to the flat, everted rim with similarly petal-lobed raised outer edge, all covered by a thick glaze with 'worm trails' shading to purple and milky lavender on the exterior and rim and to an intense pale milky blue on the interior, and thinning to olive-brown on the raised areas, as well as on the base which is incised with the numeral qi (seven) and has a circle of twelve spur marks revealing the grey body
8 5/16in. (21.1cm.) across, box

展覽

An Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's, London, 2-14 June 1993, no. 7.

拍品專文

This bulb bowl is particularly notable for the striking contrast between the mottled purple glaze on the exterior and the vibrant greenish-blue glaze on the interior. Also noteworthy is the handsome, sparse network of 'earthworm tracks' in the glaze, a trademark of these prized wares and one used by Chinese ceramic connoisseurs through the ages in establishing authenticity.

Compare four bulb bowls of this form in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, vol. 32, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), pp. 34-37, nos. 29-32. A similarly-glazed bulb bowl of this form, also inscribed with the numeral seven, in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 2000, no. 43. A comparable bulb bowl inscribed with the numeral eight in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, is illustrated by H. Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 152, no. 243 and dust jacket. Other comparable bulb bowls are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 11, no. 88; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, loc. cit, vol. 10, no. 212; and the Percival David Foundation, London, loc. cit, vol. 6, no. 50.

See, also, the similar bulb bowl inscribed with the numeral nine, from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1980, lot 276.