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32. A Jizhou Slip-Decorated Conical Tea Bowl
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)

with very slightly rounded flaring sides decorated with a loose abstract design of splashed and
swirled caramel-colored semi-translucent slip over a dark chocolate-brown glaze on the interior
and exterior, the small ring foot of wedge-shaped section and flat countersunk base left unglazed
revealing the pale buff-colored pottery.

Diameter 5 ⁄8 inches (14.9 cm)
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A small Jizhou pottery jar decorated in the same abstract style and technique from the collection of the Cleveland Museum
of Art is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics,
400–1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 236, no. 93, with a long caption including a detailed description of the ‘brushed-on’ or ‘trailed
slip’ technique used in decorating these wares, saying “Chinese sources often refer to glazes of the type covering this jar as
sayou (literally, “poured glazes” or “sprinkled glazes”), a reference to the linear decoration’s abstract, unpredictable nature.”

宋 吉州黑釉白花斗笠碗 徑 14.9 厘米