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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1745
AN UNUSUAL BROWN-GLAZED PORCELAIN TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl is potted with deep, faring sides that straighten below the rim, and While the heavy potting, grooved mouth rim, shallow angled cut on the lower
is covered inside and out with a mottled brownish-black glaze that stops in an sides, and treatment of the foot are typical of the tea bowls made at the
irregular line above the foot, exposing the white, porcellaneous body, which Jian kilns in Fujian province, the white porcelain body is very unusual and
also shows through the clear glaze of bluish tint that was applied to the rim, points to another area of production. As noted in the catalogue entry for the
which had been wiped clean. On the exterior the brown glaze bleeds onto the present bowl in Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection,
clear glaze but is neatly controlled in a line on the interior. J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 2013, no. 56, “Field research has proven that
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) diam. elsewhere in Fujian province, white porcelain wares, mostly with transparent-
bluish ‘qingbai’ glaze were in production at Dehua and other kilns during the
Southern Song period. No other similar bowl with brown and ‘qingbai’ glazed
$8,000-12,000
combined on a porcelain body appears to have been previously published,
but Fujian province and the Dehua kilns seem the most likely origin for the
PROVENANCE present example.”
Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf. 南宋 黑釉白覆輪盞
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, May 2013.
EXHIBITED
New York, J.J. Lally & Co., Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf
Collection, 2013.
LITERATURE
J.J. Lally & Co., Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection,
New York, 2013, no. 56.

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