SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Among the daring and innovative techniques the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous for is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing such designs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7.
A Jizhou paper-cut resist-decorated bowl with similar decoration of three flower sprigs on the interior, of slightly larger size (5 5/8 in.), was sold in these rooms, 26 March 2010, lot 1334.