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
53.
A YAOZHOU RUST-DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of conical form with steeply raked and gently rounded sides flaring to a well-finished rolled over rim, covered inside and out with a black glaze decorated on the interior with a repeating pattern of loosely drawn stripes extending from the rim and trailing off around the small circular floor of the bowl, the underside plain but showing a narrow band of rust-brown where the glaze thins over the tapered edge of the rim, and with a few splashes of russet also at the rim, the small knife-pared ring foot and recessed base unglazed, the exposed gray stoneware with a putty-colored skin from the firing.
Diameter 5 5⁄8 inches (14.3 cm)
A similar bowl is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 121-122, no. 22, from the Dane Collection, where the author states: “The recovery of intact bowls of virtually identical shape and decoration, along with related sherds, from the Song stratum at the Huangpu kiln site substantiates the identification of this bowl as Yaozhou ware.”
Another similar bowl is illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition at the Guangzhou King of Nanyue Museum entitled Black Porcelain from the Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Guangzhou, 1997, no. 105, pp. 214-25.
北宋 耀州黑釉鐵銹斑撇口碗 徑 14.3 厘米
