A SMALL CIZHOU RUSSET-GLAZED WATERPOT
A SMALL CIZHOU RUSSET-GLAZED WATERPOT

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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A SMALL CIZHOU RUSSET-GLAZED WATERPOT
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
Of globular form with raised mouth rim, covered inside and out with a glossy russet glaze falling in an irregular line to partially cover the slightly flared foot exposing the fine stoneware body
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Blitz, Asian Arts Fair, New York, April 1997.
Exhibited
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 27.

Lot Essay

The rich and lustrous, ever-changing mirror-like persimmon glaze on this charming little jar would have made it conducive to long periods of contemplation by a scholar, on whose desk such an object would be set to hold fresh water.

A virtually identical water pot in the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science is illustrated by W. Hochstadter, 'Ceramics of the Five Dynasties and Sung Periods', Hobbies: The Magazine of the Buffalo Museum of Science, vol. 26, no. 5 (June 1946): pp. 101-46, no. 73. Two small russet-glazed Cizhou-type jars with more rounded bodies in the Scheinman Collection are illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, no. 27a and b.

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