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58. A Russet-Splashed Black-Glazed Tea Bowl W ith 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