NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

Details

A CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO DEEP BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The deep rounded sides are carved through the dark brown glaze to the white slip ground with a band of five stylized leafy sprays between line borders. The brown glaze extends slightly over the in-curved mouth rim on the white slip-covered interior and the vessel is covered overall with a clear glaze that stops above the foot ring.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4502.

Literature

J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese Ceramics in Black and White, New York, 2010, no. 27.

Exhibited

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese Ceramics in Black and White, 20 March-10 April 2010, no. 27.

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Lot Essay

A Cizhou jar of similar shape, with a design of 'cash' pattern cut through the dark brown glaze to the white slip ground, from the Linyushanren Collection, was sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2018, lot 508. Another deep bowl of this distinctive shape carved with a design of foliate sprays and small florettes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Y. Mino in Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tzu-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD, Indianapolis, 1980, pp. 110-11, no. 43.

The design found on the present jar, with leafy sprays on a combed ground, can also be found on a white-ground Cizhou jar of the same shape, also from the Linyushanren Collection, sold at Chrisite's New York, 24 July 2020, lot 63.

The results of Oxford Authentication, Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P109a50 are consistent with the dating of this lot.

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