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1141 PROPERTY FROM THE
PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
1142
1141
A PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED
JIZHOU BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The interior is decorated in resist technique with
paper-cut decoration of three quadrilobed fowers
reserved in brown against the variegated, milky
buf ground. The exterior is covered in a glaze of
dark brown color mottled in beige falling short of a
knife-cut edge above the low, narrow ring foot.
4º in. (10.9 cm.) diam.

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Alberto Manuel Cheung, New York,
22 January 2004.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection,
New York.
南宋 吉州窯剪紙貼花盌

1142
A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISE SHELL’-GLAZED
BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl has fared sides that round upwards just
below the fnger-grooved rim, and is covered inside
and out with a dark brown glaze splashed in buf
with bluish-white sufusions falling to just above
the foot.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 735.
James E. Breece III Collection.
Christie’s New York, 18 September 2003, lot 253.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection,
New York.

The remarkable glaze seen on this bowl was an
innovation of the pioneering potters at the Jizhou
kilns in Jiangxi province. Known as ‘tortoise shell’
glaze, its name was derived supposedly from its
similarity to the shell of a warm-water sea turtle
known as the hawksbill. Compare two similar
‘tortoise shell’-glazed conical bowls, the frst
from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, and now in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in
Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections,
vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 172; the second illustrated
in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong
Kong, 1994, no. 170.
南宋 吉州窯玳瑁釉盌

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