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PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION
南宋 吉州窰黑釉木葉天目茶盞
A SUPERB JIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED ‘LEAF’ BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY 來源：
日本東京私人收藏
of conical shape, covered with a lustrous brownish-black glaze
thinning at the rim, decorated on the interior with a worm-
eaten leaf, forming an attractive honey-brown silhouette, the
foot left unglazed revealing the pale body, Japanese wood box
15.5 cm, 6⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection, Tokyo.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 77,500-104,000

The Jizhou kilns at Yonghezhen, Ji’an county in Jiangxi
province, a region formerly called Jizhou, were not blessed
with the finest raw materials for making stonewares, but came
up with the most original ideas for decorating. They were
unique in exploiting the chemical composition of real tree
leaves for making tea bowls with most naturalistic – because
natural – silhouette leaf designs.
See a related bowl illustrated in Gugong Songci tulu. Longquan
yao, Geyao ji qita ge yao/Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty
Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Lung-ch’üan Ware,
Ko Ware and Other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 72; and another
bowl from the collection of Alfred Clark, included in Ryūsen
Shūhō / Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, pl. 677,
and sold in our London rooms, 11th May 2011, lot 3.

Two views

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