SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A SUPERB JIZHOU PAPER-CUT-DECORATED 'PHOENIX' TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The deep bowl is decorated on the interior in resist technique with two long-tailed phoenixes in flight between three prunus blossoms, all reserved in dark brown on a variegated brown and buff ground. The exterior has pale buff speckling on a dark brown ground that falls short of a knife-cut edge above the low, narrow foot ring.
5 3/8 in. (13.2 cm.) diam., brown lacquer cup stand incised with gilt floral scroll, silk pouches, Japanese wood and lacquer boxes

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Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

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Lot Essay

One of interior box lids is inscribed by Kobori Sokei (b. 1923), the head of the Enshu School of Tea. The inscription compares the present bowl to an important tea bowl named Onaga-dori, a famous Jizhou bowl known since the 17th century. This bowl is listed in the inventory of masterpieces of tea ceremony utensils, Tsuchiya Soshu Chaki Densho, which was compiled by Tsuchiya Masanao (1641-1732), the regional ruler of the feudal domain of Tsuchiura in Hitachi. Sokei also notes that the gold characters on the cover of one of the inner boxes are transcribed in the calligraphic style of Lord Korbori Enshu (1579-1647).

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