J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
55.
A PARTRIDGE FEATHER MOTTLED BROWN- AND BLACK-GLAZED TEABOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with gently rounded sides rising to a flared lip rim, covered inside and out with a shiny dark brown glaze verging on black, decorated with widely scattered matte rust-brown splashes and streaks shading to iridescent olive-green, reminiscent of the markings on partridge feathers, the glaze thinning around the lip to a medium reddish-brown, and ending in a thick roll around the exterior short of the small circular foot, the unglazed stoneware base fired to tan-brown.
Diameter 4 3⁄4 inches (12.1 cm)
From the Collection of Baron Cunliffe (1899-1963), no. T-20
A similar brown- and black-mottled bowl is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 470, p. 258, where the author cites other similar examples excavated from a Northern Song stratum at the Cizhou kiln site at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1990, no. 4, fig. 14, p. 7, described by the archaeologists as “imitation Ding.”
Two other similar bowls, one from the Dane Collection and one from the Scheinman Collection, are illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, nos. 38a and b, pp. 142-143. Another similar example is illustrated by Rotondo-McCord in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, no. 34, p. 98; and another similar bowl is illustrated by Sullivan in Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 53c.
北宋 黑釉醬斑碗 徑 12 厘米
