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PROPERTY FROM THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION
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A HENAN RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED DEEP JAR
AND COVER
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
The jar has deep rounded sides covered on the exterior with a lustrous black The glaze on this vessel is a very successful example of the Song dynasty
glaze accented with splashes of russet brown. The interior is covered with a dark brown iron-rich glaze with russet splashes containing an even higher
black glaze except for a circular section revealing the biscuit body. The domed percentage of iron. A russet-splashed black-glazed bowl and cover of
cover has a small fnial and is similarly covered with a russet-splashed black similar form from the Falk Collection and later sold at Christie’s New
glaze on the exterior, the interior is unglazed. York, 20 September 2001, lot 83, is illustrated by R. D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur,
Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 144-45, no.
$12,000-18,000 39. A similar russet-splashed black-glazed bowl and cover in the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s
Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 161. Two related vessels in the
PROVENANCE Meiyintang Collection are illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Kochukyo, Tokyo. Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, pp. 254-55, no. 462. The present
covered bowl is distinguished from the above cited examples for having both
EXHIBITED
Christie’s, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song the lower body and base fully covered with glaze.
Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22-27 November 宋 黑釉鐵鏽斑蓋罐
2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.
LITERATURE
Christie’s, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song
Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 89, no. 29.

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