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Lot Essay
Dark-glazed bowls of this type, with large, evenly-spaced russet splashes, usually numbering between three and five, were popular wares produced at various Cizhou-type kilns in the north in the twelth and thirteenth centuries. The present bowl, however, is an unusual example of this type, with the russet splashes diffusing into the 'hare's-fur' ground. A very similar bowl is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, no. 39.
Two related Jin dynasty russet-splashed bowls were included in the same exhibition in which the present lot was also shown, the first from the Dr. Robert Barron Collection, the second from the Scheinman Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 147-8, nos. 41 and 42 respectively. Another bowl of this type is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, p. 73, no. 32.
Two related Jin dynasty russet-splashed bowls were included in the same exhibition in which the present lot was also shown, the first from the Dr. Robert Barron Collection, the second from the Scheinman Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 147-8, nos. 41 and 42 respectively. Another bowl of this type is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, p. 73, no. 32.