SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

Details

A JIZHOU LEAF-DECORATED CONICAL TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl is delicately potted with wide flared sides. The interior is decorated near the centre with the gossamer imprint of a brownish-buff leaf against a dark-brown glaze that thins to an amber colour at the rim and ends above the shallow ring foot exposing the buff body.
6 1⁄8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

John Sparks, London (according to label)
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s

Exhibited

University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, The Multiplicity of Simplicity - Monochrome wares from the Song to the Yuan dynasties, 2012, no. 112

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Lot Essay

The conical bowl form, such as on the current ‘leaf’ bowl is the most revered form of Jizhou ‘leaf’ bowls. A similar Jizhou ‘leaf’ bowl, classified as Important Cultural Property, in The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is illustrated by Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 117, no. 79. Another bowl of this type in the National Palace Museum collection is illustrated in Songci tezhan mulu (Illustrated Catalogue of Song Ceramics), Taipei, 1978, p. 50, no. 20.

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