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A GROUP OF SIX EARLY CERAMICS TWO LONGQUAN CELADON BOWLS
10th century and later 13th/14th century
The first a compressed globular pottery jar with a band of raised The larger of inverted domical section incised with leaf scrolls on the
ribs radiating down the curving shoulder beneath a thin brown glaze interior and a simplified key-fret band above rising lotus petals on
(glaze degraded); the second a Cizhou type marbled ware low bowl the exterior walls (glaze degraded), small areas of gilt restoration to
with yellow glaze (repaired); the third a compressed globular jar of rim); the smaller of inverted bell form with a flared rim above the band
Cizhou type with tiny metallic ‘oil spots’ in the black glaze; the fourth of lotus petals molded into the exterior walls, the gray-green glaze
a Jizhou tea bowl with misfired glaze of uneven pale russet hue; the repeating on the deeply recessed base within the foot ring (glaze
fifth a black glazed miniature bubble cup (chipped); the last bowl with extensively degraded).
flared rim and extensively degraded black glaze (chipped). 7 3/4 and 5 3/4in (19.6 and 14.6cm) diameter
4 3/4in (12.2cm) diameter of largest bowl
US$700 - 900
US$800 - 1,200
Provenance
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A PROMINENT BAY AREA the first, Bluett & Sons, London, purchased 14 July 1961;
COLLECTOR the second, Bluett & Sons, London, purchased 21 January 1969

9299 For of similar shape and decoration published as 13th to mid-14th
A GROUP OF CIZHOU-TYPE CERAMICS century Longquan, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the
Jin/Yuan dynasty Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. I, cat. no. 1, p. 241, no.
The first an ovoid-bodied bottle with concave recess banding the 11, p. 243, no. 18, p. 245.
short neck, the deep brownish-black ground painted in rust colored
wash with an abstracted leaf or bird design; the second a small PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
jar with creamy white and black slip decoration forming a band of
dissolved leafy scrolls around the compressed ovoid body (both with 9303
wear, minor chips); the third a miniature model of a recumbent tiger A LONGQUAN CELADON SQUARE-SECTIONED VASE
glazed in white and black slips. Ming dynasty
9 1/2in (24.2cm) high Molded in raised relief with alternating vertical panels of a xiniu
looking at the moon and a crane in flight set between horizontal
US$1,200 - 1,500 flower and leaf reserves on the upright walls above an integral
waisted base with reticulated details, the glassy sea-green glaze
9300 extensively crazed and showing some russet staining (repaired and
A GROUP OF THREE BROWN GLAZED CERAMIC BOWLS retouched).
12th/13th century 8 3/8in (21.3cm) high
The largest a Cizhou type conical bowl with wide concave band
molded below the exterior rim, the glaze ranging from rust brown US$2,000 - 3,000
to black in a ‘hare’s fur’ pattern (wear); and two Jizhou tea bowls,
the smaller bowl painted with straw colored slip in an abstracted A Longquan vase of similar shape, but molded with panels of
branch pattern on the dark chocolate brown ground, the larger bowl immortals sold in Christie’s, New York, sale 2269, lot 708, as Yuan/
featuring flower heads in reserve against a spotted rust and dark Early Ming Dynasty, 14th century.
brown ground (repaired an repainted).
7 3/4, 4 1/2 and 4 5/8in (19.5, 11.5 and 11.7cm) diameter

US$800 - 1,200
PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION

9301
A JIZHOU WARE TEA BOWL
Southern Song dynasty
Of slightly compressed triangular profile raised atop a nearly flat
unglazed foot, the exterior sides of dark chocolate hue flecked in
lighter cream colored ‘tortoise shell’ mottling; the interior cavetto
adorned in three papercut decorations surrounded by a variegated
buff ground (restored).
4 3/8in (11.2cm) diameter

US$1,000 - 1,500

Provenance:
Bluett, London, purchased 3 February 1962

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