J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400–1400:
Selections from an American Collection
March 19 - 31, 2007
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A ‘MARBLED’ BROWN AND TAN POTTERY SAUCER DISH
Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 10th-11th Century
of shallow circular form, made from light and dark clays twisted into irregular swirls arranged in a continuous spiral pattern coiling from the center of the dish to the inner border of the narrow flaring sides, with looser swirls of light and dark clay on the sides continuing onto the everted rim, the lip edged in pale clay and moulded with a half-round upturned edge, the ‘marbled’ clays showing the identical pattern on the underside, the interior covered with a transparent glaze of slightly yellowish tone, the underside with only a very thin layer of glaze.
Diameter 6 3⁄4 inches (17.1 cm)
A ‘marbled’ pottery dish of very similar form and related design is illustrated by Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 9.
Another very similar ‘marbled’ pottery dish of this form and size in the Shandong Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Taocijuan (Compendium of Chinese Archaeological Treasures, Ceramics), Hong Kong, 1993, no. 250, p. 247.
For a comprehensive review of this rare type of Chinese ceramics, see Liu Tao, “Jiaotai Porcelain and Jiaoyou Porcelain,” in Zhongyuan Wenwu, Vol. 1 (Relics from the Central Plain), 1999, pp. 92-98, translated into English in China Art and Archaeology Digest, Vol. 3, no. 4, June 2000, pp. 171-180. The same dish from the Hoyt Collection in the M.F.A., Boston, is illustrated op.cit., p. 177, fig. 12.
