SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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.