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Lot Essay
Similarly decorated bowls were produced at the Yaozhou and Jingdezhen kilns, however, the dramatic sgraffito effects achieved with this technique at the Henan kilns superseded those rendered at the other sites.
Compare a similar bowl from the Moore Memorial collection at the Yale University Art Gallery which is illustrated by Y. Mino and K.R. Tsiang, in the exhibition catalogue, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980-81, pp. 48-9, pl. 12. See, also, a bowl of the same size in the Palace Museum, Beijing, decorated with smaller concentric grooves, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, Song, vol. I, Shanghai, 1981, no. 209.
Compare, also, a similar bowl from the Toguri Collection sold at Sotheby's, London, 9 June 2004, lot 60.
Compare a similar bowl from the Moore Memorial collection at the Yale University Art Gallery which is illustrated by Y. Mino and K.R. Tsiang, in the exhibition catalogue, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980-81, pp. 48-9, pl. 12. See, also, a bowl of the same size in the Palace Museum, Beijing, decorated with smaller concentric grooves, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, Song, vol. I, Shanghai, 1981, no. 209.
Compare, also, a similar bowl from the Toguri Collection sold at Sotheby's, London, 9 June 2004, lot 60.