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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN

Important Chinese Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection
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A VERY RARE JIZHOU PAPERCUT RESIST- 臨宇山́珍藏重要中४瓷器
DECORATED BOWL 南宋 吉州⒋剪紙貼花梅紋盌
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) Ϝ源
⁸Ḍ益田孝（1848 1938）珍藏，東̺（據木盒標籤）
6¿ in. (15.6 cm.) diam., silk pouch, Japanese double wood box with inscriptions
展覽
$60,000-80,000 名۵屋，丸栄百貨Ռ司，ǙExhibition for One Hundred Tea Bowlǚ，1968年11月
16日至21日
PROVENANCE:
Baron Masuda (Masuda Takashi, 1848-1938) Collection, Tokyo (according to
label on box).
EXHIBITED:
Nagoya, Maruei department store, Exhibition for One Hundred Tea Bowl,
16-21 November 1968.

Among the daring and innovative techniques for which the Jizhou kilns A bowl of similar decoration and size (15.2 cm. diam.), but a more
in Jiangxi province are most famous is the technique of using paper golden-toned ground on the interior, from the Avery Brundage
cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. Carefully detailed on the Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by
interior with fifteen stylized papercut plum blossoms, with an extremely R. Mowry, ibid., p. 250, no. 101. For examples of smaller size, see a
well-preserved glossy glaze, this bowl is an exceptional example of its bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine
type. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing designs Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great
using paper cut-outs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 171, and the bowl from the
Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400- Charlotte Horstmann Collection sold at Christie’s New York,
1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7. 26 May 2003, lot 218.

(another view with boxes)

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