SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISE SHELL’-GLAZED TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl has flared sides and is covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze splashed in amber tones reminiscent of tortoise shell, stopping just above the foot.
5 7⁄8 in. (15 cm.) diam., box

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. 105

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Lot Essay

The remarkable glaze seen on this bowl was an innovation of the pioneering potters at the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province. Known as 'tortoiseshell' glaze, its name was derived supposedly from its similarity to the shell of a warm-water sea turtle known as the hawksbill. Compare to a 'tortoiseshell'-glazed conical bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 172.

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