J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
March 15 - April 13, 2013
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A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISESHELL’-GLAZED CONICAL TEA BOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
with thinly potted flaring sides rising from a small ring foot to a lipless rim, covered with a chocolate-brown glaze enlivened by opaque cloudy tan-colored splashes all over, the base unglazed revealing the pale buff pottery.
Diameter 6 1⁄4 inches (15.6 cm)
A similar ‘tortoiseshell’-glazed conical tea bowl in the collection of Harvard University Art Museums is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 234-235, no. 92 with a description of the probable technique for creating the ‘tortoiseshell’ glaze which was pioneered at the Jizhou kilns.
Another similar Jizhou ‘tortoiseshell’-glazed conical tea bowl is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 6, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Tokyo, 1982, no. 46.
Compare also the bowl of this type illustrated in the catalogue entitled Ten Dynasties of Chinese Ceramics from the Chang Foundation, New York, 1993, p. 27; and the similar Jizhou ‘tortoiseshell’-glazed conical bowl in the Cleveland Museum of Art is listed in the Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, Cleveland, 1990, no. 18.
宋 吉州玳瑁釉斗笠碗 徑 15.6 厘米
31.
A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISESHELL’-GLAZED CONICAL TEA BOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Diameter 6 1⁄4 inches (15.6 cm)