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851 A JIZHOU LEAF-DECORATED 南宋ǭम州窯黑釉木葉紋盞
TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The conical bowl is decorated on the interior with the purplish-
brown and light-buff gossamer imprint of a large leaf against the
dark-brown glaze, which thins to an amber color at the rim and
ends above the foot.

5√ in. (14.9 cm.) diam., brocade box
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4490.

Leaf-decorated tea bowls, referred to in Chinese as muye wenyang A bowl of this type from the Ataka Collection, classified as an
wan or shuye tuyang wan (‘tree-leaf-pattern bowls’), are the most Important Cultural Property of Japan, is in The Museum of
famous products of the Jizhou kilns and among the most celebrated Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, and illustrated by G. Hasebe, Ceramic
of all ceramics made for tea use. The design was created by affixing Art of the World, Sung Dynasty, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 12, pp. 109-10,
a leaf to the interior of a bowl and then immersing the bowl in figs. 107-8. Another comparable bowl is illustrated in Oriental
the dark brown glaze slurry. When fired in the kiln, chemical Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Tokyo National Museum,
reactions stripped the leaf of its dark brown color, creating a Tokyo, 1980, vol. 1, no. 94. See, also, the very similar example
ghostly impression of the leaf structure, typically golden amber from the Yangdetang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
or pale yellow in color. For further discussion of the processes 30 November 2016, lot 3162.
involved in producing leaf decoration and for two examples of
bowls decorated in this manner, the first from the collection of The result of C-Link Research and Development Ltd.
The Art Institute of Chicago and the second from the Arthur M. thermoluminescence test no. 2649WG19 is consistent with the
Sackler Museum, Harvard University, see R. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, dating of this lot.
Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996,

pp. 259-62, nos. 107 and 108.

(another view)

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