A SMALL CIZHOU RUSSET-STREAKED BLACK-GLAZED LOBED BOWL

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

Details

A SMALL CIZHOU RUSSET-STREAKED BLACK-GLAZED LOBED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The compressed body rising from the flat, unglazed base and then rounding upwards and inwards towards the rim, the mid-body divided into eight lobes by vertical indentations that have corresponding ribs on the interior, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze unusually decorated on the interior with streaks and swirls of russet and ending well above the base on the exterior
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1986, lot 87.

Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 33.

Lot Essay

The origins of segmentation of ceramic vessels can be traced to Tang silver prototypes, where the divisions were intended to suggest a ripe melon or an open flower.
A lobed russet-splashed black-glazed bowl with a flat base, but of deeper form, from the deMenasce Collection, is illustrated in Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, pl. 31, no. 71.

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