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PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION

1534

A JIZHOU PAINTED BROWN-GLAZED ‘PHOENIX’ BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

The bowl has rounded sides that rise to a slightly indented rim, and is covered with a dark
brown glaze decorated on the interior in overglaze buff with a central fower head encircled
by two phoenixes in fight between fower sprigs, which ends in an irregular line on the
exterior, exposing the pale grey ware.
4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

By repute, John Sparks Ltd., London, acquired in the 1930s.
George Harwood Sr., Johannesburg, South Africa, and thence by descent.

A bowl of this shape, similarly decorated in buf overglaze with two phoenixes in fight in the interior,
is illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare’s, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-
Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, p. 239, no. 95.
南宋 吉州窯褐釉鐵繪鳳鳥紋盞

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