SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JIZHOU 'PAPERCUT' RESIST-DECORATED BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The widely flared conical bowl is decorated on the interior in resist technique with two long-tailed phoenixes in flight between two florets and above one another in the center, all reserved on a dark-brown glaze against a variegated olive-beige ground. The exterior has numerous pale buff spots on a blackish-brown ground that stops unevenly above the exposed buff pottery foot.
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Fernando Flores, New York, 2002.
Dr. Richard and Ruth Dickes Collection.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar bowl from the Havermeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, rev. ed., 1989, pl. 116, fig. 111; one illustrated in Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1973, p. 166, fig. 118; and another in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, fig. 35. See, also, the bowl sold at Christie's New York, Falk Collection Part I, 20 September 2001, lot 92. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing tortoiseshell glazes and designs using paper cut-outs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995, pp. 36-37.

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