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169 The inventive craftsmen of the Jizhou kilns produced various types of
A richly-mottled Jizhou ‘tortoise-shell’-glazed glazes during the Song Dynasty, famously including types like ‘hare’s
five-lobed bowl fur’, ‘partridge feathers’ and ‘tortoiseshell.’ The ‘tortoiseshell’ glaze, as
Southern Song Dynasty seen on the present lot, is aptly named for its similarity to the colours
Elegantly potted with rounded sides rising to a lobed rim and raised and irregular patterns on the shells of warm-water sea turtles. See
on an unglazed foot ring, covered inside and out with a glaze of Robert Mowry, op.cit., for an extensive discussion of these splendid
mottled amber and creamy brown irregular splashes on a dark early colour-enhanced blackwares.
brown-black glaze imitating tortoiseshell.
12cm diam. Commonly potted with conical forms or round everted rims, it is rare
to find bowls of this type and glaze in this particular shape with a
HK$100,000 - 150,000 lobed hexafoil rim. Compare with an example in the Percival David
US$13,000 - 19,000 Foundation, illustrated by Stacey Pierson, Song Ceramics, Objects of
Admiration, London, 2003, p.38-39, no.10.
南宋 吉州窯仿玳瑁花菱盌
盌口六瓣菱口，微微外撇，弧腹下收，圈足。以黑釉為底，褐釉自然
勻染，仿玳瑁的自然花紋裝飾，整體發色渾然天成，自然靈動，使得
用此盌者平添一份趣意。

玳瑁釉為窯變釉，其原理是在胎體上使用兩種氧化鐵含量不同的釉，
燃燒時產生交融及流淌的效應，如同玳瑁紋理。吉州窯上常見這種飾
方法，但如此盌之花菱形制並以玳瑁釉裝飾之例則較為少見。

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