NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A similar bowl of larger size (19.5 cm.) is illustrated by Robert D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp. 140-41, no. 36. Like the present bowl, both the interior and exterior are decorated with 'partridge-feather mottles', while the two conical bowls, also illustrated, pp. 140-41, nos. 37 a & b, are decorated only on the interior, with a russet-brown glaze on the exterior. All three of these bowls are in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.