SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A JIZHOU LEAF-DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED BOWL
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
With rounded sides standing on a small circular foot rising to a slightly incurving, silver-bound rim, the bowl is covered inside and out with a black glaze decorated to interior with a delicate leaf of pale yellowish buff colour. The glaze stops above the foot ring to expose the dark greyish stoneware body.
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

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Lot Essay

Examples of this type of bowl exist in a number of museum collections, including the one illustrated by Hayashiya in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1982, no. 94. Another is illustrated by A. Leith in the Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959, no. 85. Refer also to the bowl included in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, p. 176, no. 738.

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