J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

March 12 - April 4, 2009

60.
A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISESHELL’-GLAZED TEABOWL

Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127-1279)

with well-potted thick flaring sides rising from a small circular foot to a wide mouth, encircled by a shallow ‘finger-groove’ around the exterior of the lipped rim, covered inside and out with a lustrous dark brown glaze liberally splashed with a translucent amber-colored glaze, giving the effect of tortoiseshell, the low ring foot and flat base unglazed, showing the pale buff pottery.

Diameter 4 58 inches (11.8 cm)

Exhibited:
London, Kilns and Conquerors, Chinese Ceramics from the 10th to the 14th Century, 2001

Published:
Priestley & Ferraro, Kilns and Conquerors, Chinese Ceramics from the 10th to the14th Century, London, 2001, no. 23

南宋  吉州玳瑁釉碗  徑 11.8 厘米