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35. A Jizhou Slip-Decorated Bowl
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)

boldly decorated with overlapping swirling lines on the interior and exterior in fluid semi-translucent
slip of yellowish-caramel tone over a dark chocolate-brown glaze, the rounded flaring sides of
the bowl rising to a shallow ‘finger groove’ below the lipped rim, the knife-pared ring foot and
underside unglazed, revealing the buff-colored pottery body.

Diameter 6 ⁄4 inches (15.9 cm)
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A similar bowl decorated in the same style in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji gongyi meishu
bian, 2, taoci (zhong) (Compendium of Chinese Art and Artifact, Vol. 2, Ceramics II), Shanghai, 1988, pl. 183, attributed to the
Yonghe kilns at Jizhou, Jiangxi province. The same bowl is also illustrated by Yu in Zhongguo gutaoci biaoben: Jiangxi Jizhou
yao (Specimens of Ancient Chinese Ceramics: Jizhou Kiln in Jiangxi), Guangzhou, 2002, p. 39, no. 17–18.
Another similar Jizhou bowl is illustrated by Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and
Lady Barlow, London, 1963, no. C. 290, pl. 123d, with caption on p. 122.
Compare also the Jizhou bowl published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988,
p. 167, no. 672, donated by Yokogawa Tamisuke; and another bowl of this type, of smaller size, illustrated in The World’s
Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 6, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Tokyo, 1982, no. 45.
宋 吉州黑釉白花碗 徑 15.9 厘米