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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 711

A RARE 'JIZHOU' 'PAPE RCUT' 'DEER' BOWL, SOUT HERN SONG DYNASTY
Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD

A RARE 'JIZHOU' 'PAPERCUT' 'DEER' BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
南宋 吉州窰剪紙貼花鹿紋盌

the deep flared sides resting on a low foot, the interior resist-decorated with a pair of leaping deer and floral sprays against a
speckled beige-brown ground, the exterior glazed a rich coffee-brown with tortoiseshell markings, the glaze stopping above the
footring to reveal the buff body

Diameter 4½ in., 11.3 cm

Catalogue Note
Compare a similar bowl with three resist-decorated leaping deer in the National Museum of History, Taipei, exhibited in Good
Fortune throughout History- An exhibition of black glaze and porcelain from Tzu-chou and Ji-chou kilns, National Museum of
History, Taipei, 2004, cat. no. 30, illustrated alongside a bowl with a design of floral sprays similar to those on the present bowl,
from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., no. P102g77.

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