A POLYCHROME-DECORATED CIZHOU ‘FISH’ BOWL

JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

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A POLYCHROME-DECORATED CIZHOU ‘FISH’ BOWL
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The bowl has rounded conical sides covered in white slip under a clear glaze on the interior and exterior where it falls short of the foot in an irregular line, and is decorated on the interior in red and green overglaze enamels with a fish swimming amidst lotus below linear borders of red and green color, the red band dotted in yellow glaze. The exterior is painted in red ink with three large indecipherable characters.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., cloth box

Lot Essay

A similar dotted band can be seen on two polychrome-decorated Cizhou bowls of similar type illustrated by Yutaka Mino and Kathrine R. Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, p. 234, figs. 305 and 306.

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