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
58.
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED TEA BOWL WITH WHITE RIM
Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234)
of Cizhou type, with flaring sides rising from a small ring foot to a flat everted rim banded with white slip under a clear glaze on both sides of the rim, the interior covered with a dark brown-black glaze embellished with brushed-on russet splashes running down from the rim to the small flat floor, the underside with a plain very dark chocolate-brown glaze showing one thin russet streak, the unglazed lower sides and foot with a chalk-white slip over the gray stoneware.
Diameter 5 inches (12.8 cm)
A similar tea bowl with upturned white rim and rust splashes on the rounded sides is published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 152, no. 609.
Compare also the larger Cizhou bowl decorated in the same style illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 147-148, no. 41, from the collection of Dr. Robert Barron.
金 黑釉鐵銹斑白口盞 徑 12.8 厘米
58.
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED TEA BOWL WITH WHITE RIM
Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234)
Diameter 5 inches (12.8 cm)