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DONGXI STUDIO
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

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A BLACK-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL WITH RUSSET ‘PARTRIDGE FEATHER MOTTLES’
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

The bowl has widely fared sides covered inside and out with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze
liberally splashed in russet with ‘partridge feather mottles’ that thins to a yellowish-russet color
below the rim and falls irregularly over the small foot to cover the base.

4√ in. (12.4 cm.) diam., box

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE

The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat; Sotheby’s New York, 7 November 1980, lot
168.
T.Y. Chao Collection; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 224.

A similar bowl of larger size (19.5 cm.) is illustrated by Robert D. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell,
and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art
Museums, 1996, pp. 140-41, no. 36. Like the present bowl, both the interior and exterior are decorated
with ‘partridge-feather mottles’, while the two conical bowls, also illustrated, pp. 140-41, nos. 37 a & b,
are decorated only on the interior, with a russet-brown glaze on the exterior. All three of these bowls are
in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
北宋/金 磁州窯系黑釉鷓鴣斑笠式盞

(another view)

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