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A FINE AND RARE JIZHOU TORTOISESHELL-GLAZED The quatrefoil cartouches are enclosed with auspicious characters
PAPER-CUT-OUT ‘AUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS’ BOWL reading Jinyu Mantang 金玉滿堂, which may be translated as ‘may
Southern Song Dynasty gold and jade fill your household’; Changming Fugui 長命富貴,
Of conical shape with steep sloping sides, the interior applied with three ‘longevity and wealth’; and Fushou Kangrong 福壽康榮, or ‘wealth,
resist-decorated quatrefoil cartouches, each enclosing four auspicious longevity, health and peace’.
characters reserved on a speckled russet ground, the exterior covered
with a dark-brown glaze with beige splashes, fitted box. Compare a similar Jizhou paper-cut bowl, Southern Song dynasty,
11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2). in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, similarly decorated with
three quatrefoil cartouches enclosing auspicious characters, illustrated
£5,000 - 8,000 by R.Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p.109, pl.110.
CNY45,000 - 71,000 For another similar Jizhou paper-cut bowl, from the Kwong Yee Che
Tong collection, see The Multiplicity of Simplicity: Monochrome wares
from the Song to the Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2012, pp.264-265,
南宋 吉州窯仿玳瑁釉剪紙貼花文字盞 no.108.

Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong A similar Jizhou paper-cut bowl, Southern Song dynasty, was sold at
circa 1980s-1990s Sotheby’s New York, 13-14 September 2016, lot 121.

來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港

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