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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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