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CHINESE CERAMICS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. RICHARD AND RUTH DICKES (another view)

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A JIZHOU ‘PAPERCUT’ RESIST-DECORATED BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

The widely fared conical bowl is decorated on the interior in resist technique
with two long-tailed phoenixes in fight between two forets and above one
another in the center, all reserved on a dark-brown glaze against a variegated
olive-beige ground. The exterior has numerous pale buf spots on a blackish-
brown ground that stops unevenly above the exposed buf pottery foot.

5æ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Fernando Flores, New York, 2002.
Dr. Richard and Ruth Dickes Collection.

Compare the similar bowl from the Havermeyer Collection in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of
Chinese Ceramics, New York, rev. ed., 1989, pl. 116, fg. 111; one illustrated
in Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1973, p. 166, fg. 118; and
another in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in
Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, fg.
35. See, also, the bowl sold at Christie’s New York, Falk Collection Part I,
20 September 2001, lot 92. For a discussion of the processes involved in
producing tortoiseshell glazes and designs using paper cut-outs, see R.
Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and
Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995,
pp. 36-37.

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