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25 For a very similar example, attributed to the Jian kilns at Yonghe,
A JIZHOU BROWN-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL Jiangxi province and dated to the Southern Song/Yuan period, see
Southern Song Dynasty R.Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese
The interior with a dark brown glaze freely decorated with an abstract Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University
design of orchids in a light buff glaze, the exterior entirely plain and Art Museums, 1996, no.95; and for another attributed to the Jizhou
under a dark brown glaze falling short of the knife-cut edge to the kilns in Jiangxi province and dated to the 12th/13th century, see
low foot. H.Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide, London, 1996,
13.8cm (5 3/8in) diam. p.164, no.301. Compare also with a similar bowl in the Victoria and
Albert Museum, illustrated by M.Medley, Yuan Porcelain & Stoneware,
£3,000 - 5,000 CNY28,000 - 46,000 London, 1974, pl.118a. For a bowl of similar type, but decorated with
HK$33,000 - 55,000 plum sprays, see G.Baochang, Selection of Plates of Porcelain Wares
Collected by Jin Ming, 1993, no.18, p.48, where the author makes an
南宋 吉州窯褐釉盌 interesting note on the characteristics and composition of traditional
Chinese painting, which makes good use of empty space, and the
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the ability of the Jizhou craftsmen to transfer this imagery to porcelain with
Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge great artistic effect.
Acquired from John Sparks Ltd., London
The Cunliffe Collection, no.T5, and thence by descent

Exhibited and Published:
Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Chun and Brown
Glazes, London, 1-31 May 1952, no.182

來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵

(1899-1963)
購自倫敦古董商John Sparks Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號T5，並由後人保存迄今

展覽及出版：

1952年5月1日至31日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Sung Dynasty Wares:
Chun and Brown Glazes(宋代器物： 鈞釉及褐釉陶瓷)」特展展出，
展品182號