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
59.
A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED JAR
Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234)
of Cizhou type, freely painted with three birds in flight loosely drawn in calligraphic brushwork over a glossy black glaze of silvery tone, the generously rounded ovoid body with wide mouth and rolled rim, resting on a tapered foot enclosing a recessed base also covered with glaze, the edge of the footrim left unglazed and the exposed stoneware fired yellowish-tan.
Diameter 8 inches (20.3 cm)
A similar jar is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 26, donated by Sir Frank Brangwyn; and another example is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 5, The British Museum, London, Tokyo, 1981, no. 124, bequeathed by H.J. Oppenheim.
Other examples are published in Mostra d’Arte Cinese (Exhibition of Chinese Art), Venice, 1954, p. 141, no. 505, from the collection of Lord Cunliffe; in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p.198, no. 594; by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 514, no. 1517; and by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 163-165, no. 54, from the collection of R.M. Ferris.
金 黑釉鐵銹斑鳥紋罐 徑 20.3 厘米
