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172 The decorative motif as seen on the present lot is one of the most
A fine and rare small Jizhou ‘tea-leaf-pattern’ tea popular interior decorations on Jizhou tea bowls. It was created by
bowl applying a real leaf under the glaze, leaving behind a light shadow of
Southern Song Dynasty itself when it is burnt out during firing. The current lot presents as a
Potted with wide flaring sides rising to an everted rim, covered rare example with the stem of the leaf extending over the mouth rim.
overall in a brown-black glaze ending above the foot exposing the
orange-white ware, the interior decorated with an applied bluish-buff There are two similar examples to the current lot. The first is from the
coloured leaf revealing all its veins. collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and the second is from the
10.7cm diam. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. Both are illustrated
by Robert Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers:
HK$400,000 - 600,000 Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge,
US$52,000 - 77,000 Massachusetts, 1996, pp.259-62, no.107 and 108. Another related
bowl of such high quality and similar size, formerly in the Yi Qing Ge
南宋 吉州窯黑釉過牆木葉盞 Collection of Chinese Ceramics, which was sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2003.

盌直口，口下有一周凸其弦紋，斜孤壁，淺圈足。通體施黑釉，及至

盌底，圈足及底部露胎。盌內壁貼上一張樹葉，葉脈細部清晰可見，

樹葉枝幹延伸至盌口沿，實為難得之器。

類似的例子，可見芝加哥藝術學院藏黑釉木葉盞，見Robert Mowry
著，《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese
Brown - and Black - Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400》，劍橋，麻薩諸塞
州，1996年，頁259-62，編號107及108。傳世品中所見例子，可看
香港佳士得曾售出一件，2013年5月 29日，拍品編號2003。

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