A JIZHOU 'TORTOISESHELL'-GLAZED BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JIZHOU 'TORTOISESHELL'-GLAZED BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
With conical sides rounding up towards the rim, covered inside and out with a rich dark brown glaze liberally splashed in translucent golden glaze in imitation of mottled tortoiseshell, the glaze ending short of the knife-pared foot to expose the buff-colored granular ware
6¼ in. (16 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

The 'tortoiseshell' glaze was perfected at the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province during the Song dynasty. These kilns, and the 'tortoiseshell' glaze, discussed by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Black-and-Brown-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, where a very similar bowl is illustrated, p. 226, no. 87.

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