SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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A JIZHOU PAINTED BROWN-GLAZED 'PHOENIX' BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The bowl has rounded sides that rise to a slightly indented rim, and is covered with a dark brown glaze decorated on the interior in overglaze buff with a central flower head encircled by two phoenixes in flight between flower sprigs, which ends in an irregular line on the exterior, exposing the pale grey ware.
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

By repute, John Sparks Ltd., London, acquired in the 1930s.
George Harwood Sr., Johannesburg, South Africa, and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

A bowl of this shape, similarly decorated in buff overglaze with two phoenixes in flight in the interior, is illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare's, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, p. 239, no. 95.

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