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A RUSSET-SPLASHED ‘PARTRIDGE
FEATHER’ LOTUS BUD-FORM JAR
AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY
the elegantly rounded sides rising from a short
slightly splayed foot to an incurved rim, the
exterior covered with a lustrous dark-brown
glaze irregularly splashed in russet-brown
similar to ‘partridge-feather’ mottles, stopping
unevenly above the foot and neatly at the rim
to expose the buff-fired ware, the domed cover
surmounted by a spherical knob, similarly
glazed, the interior of the jar applied with a
mottled brown glaze (2)
height 4⅞ in., 12.4 cm
$ 40,000-60,000

北宋 / 金 黑釉鷓鴣斑紋蓮苞式
蓋罐

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