J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
20.
A ‘PARTRIDGE-FEATHER’ MOTTLED BLACK-GLAZED
STONEWARE BOWL
Song Dynasty, A.D. 12th Century
of rounded conical form, the flaring sides rising to a gently rounded rim with everted lip, covered with a lustrous black glaze splashed on the interior and around the rim with metallic-surfaced ‘partridge-feather’ mottles in a loose random pattern, standing on a knife-pared small footring, the base left unglazed revealing the pale gray stoneware body of Cizhou type.
Diameter 4 7⁄8 inches (12.1 cm)
Ex Collection Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak, Hong Kong.
Exhibited at the Guangzhou City Cultural Bureau and illustrated in the catalogue entitled Black Porcelain from the Mr. & Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Guangzhou, 1997, pp. 218–219, no. 107, attributed in the text to Henan province and described as Baofeng ware.
A slightly smaller bowl of this form glazed in the same technique with metallic and russet-colored ‘partridge-feather’ markings, from the Dane Collection, Harvard University, is illustrated by Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400–1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 152, no. 45, where the author notes the distinctive form of the footring which is “. . . identical in size, shape and cut to those of the small black-glazed ‘oil-spot’ bowls made at the Xiaoyu cun kilns, suggesting that these bowls may have been made at Huairen, Shanxi province. . .”
宋 黑釉褐斑碗 徑 12.1 厘米
