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propertY From the CoLLeCtIon oF Guan wares were made in very small numbers, and the
roBert YoUnGman present bowl is an extremely rare example. the unctuous
A RARE SMALL ‘GUAN’ MALLOW-FORM BOWL glaze of the present bowl with its pleasing texture was
SOUTHERN SONG - MING DYNASTY achieved through the gradual application of multiple glaze
layers and successive firings. the distinct crackling was
the thinly potted body with rounded sides rising from a caused by different degrees of shrinkage between the glaze
narrow tapering foot to a flaring rim notched into six lobes, and body material, produced by a well-controlled cooling
covered overall with a thick opaque glaze of grayish blue- process after the last firing and subsequent staining.
green color, suffused with a matrix of dark gray and pale related bowls attributed to the southern song dynasty
golden crackles, ending neatly at the foot revealing the dark include two examples in the national palace museum,
brown body, the recessed base also glazed taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of
Diameter 4½ in., 11.1 cm Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, hong Kong, 1989, cat. nos 106
and 107, and three examples of six-petal rimmed bowls of
PROVENANCE
slightly smaller size illustrated in Selection of Ge Ware, The
mathias Komor, new York, may 1950. Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries,
Collection of pauline (1910-2000) and myron s. Falk, Jr. Beijing, 2017,
(1907-1992). pls 31-33.
Christie’s new York, 20th september 2001, lot 112.
$ 80,000-120,000
EXHIBITED
Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects- The Myron S. Falk 南宋至明 官窰葵式盌
Collection, smith College museum of art, ma, 1957,
cat. no. 22. 來源
Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, Mathias Komor，紐約，1950年5月
middlebury College museum of art, middlebury, Vermont,
september 2005. Pauline (1910-2000) 及 Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1907-1992) 收藏
紐約佳士得2001年9月20日，編號112
LITERATURE
展覽
robert p. Youngman, The Five Famous Imperial Wares of the 《Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects- The Myron S. Falk
Song Dynasty, self-published, 2000, pp. 22-23.
Collection》，史密斯學院藝術美術館，麻省，1957
年，編號22
《Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of
Asian Art》，明德大學藝術博物館，米德爾堡，佛蒙
特州，2005年9月
出版
羅伯特•楊門，《The Five Famous Imperial Wares of
the Song Dynasty》，2000年，頁22-23

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