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1972.43-61 (C-6i6)
Bowl

Japanese or Chinese, nineteenth century
Glazed stoneware, 5.2 x 18.0 (2Vie x /Vie)
Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele

TECHNICAL NOTES
The stoneware body is very thin. The foot-ring is sharply
trimmed, and there is a spot of glaze on the recessed base.

PROVENANCE
(Parish-Watson Gallery, New York); sold to Harry G. Steele
[1881-1941], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele.

N ITS ATTEMPT TO COPY a Chinese Song-dynasty,
IHenan-style, brown-glazed tea bowl, this vessel has
succeeded in capturing the quality of the model's uni-
form brown iron oxide glaze but has failed to maintain
its strictly conical profile. In surviving Song-dynasty
examples, the walls of this type of bowl tend to be
straight, with no visible curvature in the profile. In addi-
tion, the foot in this example is unusually small in com-
parison to surviving Song examples. 1
SL

NOTES
i. For an example of an authentic bowl of Song-Ding ware
with this shape, see Medley 1982, fig. 15.

profile of 1972.43.61

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