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A PAIR OF CIZHOU-TYPE BLACK-GLAZED STONEWARE DISHES
11th/12th century
Each finely potted dish with rounded, shallow walls curving up to a cream-glazed rim, the
interior and exterior bodies covered with a glaze of rich black over a tan pottery body, the
interior of the foot unglazed.
5 7/8in (14.9cm) diameter of each
$8,000 - 12,000

十一至十二世紀 黑釉白口小碟一對

The elegant contrast between the black glazed-body and the white-glazed rim evokes
opposite contrast of the bright silver bands applied to the rims of creamy white Ding wares.

Compare the conical bowl with black glaze and white rim of Cizhou type in the collection of
the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, ascribed to the 11th-12th
century by Robert Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese
Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, cat. no. 31, pp. 132-133.
Another similarly glazed shallow bowl from the Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954) Collection
and previously in the Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, sold at Christie’s New
York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1172. See also another related bowl dated to the Song dynasty
illustrated in The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the
Linyushanren Collection, Christie’s, 2012, p. 87, no. 27.

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