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176 The characters form the auspicious phrases:
A very rare Jizhou paper-cut-out ‘lotus and ‘Zao ru zhong shu’, meaning ‘may you be promoted soon’
characters’ conical tea bowl ‘Jin yu man tang’, meaning ‘may gold and jade fill your hall’.
Southern Song Dynasty
The interior resist-decorated with three paper-cut-out lotus sprays Known for their inventive use of stencils made from paper cut-outs, the
on a speckled light and coffee-brown ground, each containing four Jizhou kilns of Jiangxi province are famous for striking wares with resist
characters within roundels, the exterior covered with a dark black- decoration on ceramics. These paper stencils were laid onto the damp
brown glaze suffused with lighter buff mottling. black glazes before the lighter overglazes were applied. Operational
11.7cm diam. from the early Northern Song Dynasty, the quality and production of
wares reached new heights during the Southern Song.
HK$450,000 - 700,000
US$58,000 - 90,000 Successfully achieving the paper-cut resist decoration on the interior
and a mottled ‘tortoise-shell’ ground on the exterior, as on the present
南宋 吉州窯仿玳瑁釉剪紙貼花文字盞 lot, would have been technically very difficult. Firing temperature
needed to be tightly controlled as outside the range of 1200-1290
degrees Celsius, the colour and design would not mature properly.
While there are examples of Jizhou bowls with paper-cut designs of
characters within shapely diamond cartouches, the present bowl’s
lotus-shaped sprays appear to be unique.

Jizhou bowls with paper-cut auspicious wishes decorating the interior
include lot 177 offered in this sale; one in the British Museum, London,
illustrated by Basil Gray, Sung Porcelain and Stoneware, London,
1984, p.127, no.100; and another comparable example in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics,
London, 2004, p.109, no.110.

盞撇口，斜腹漸收，瘦底，圈足。通體施。盌心微凸，外壁施仿玳瑁
有近足不，內壁上以剪紙貼花技法飾三菱形開光內書「金玉滿堂」、
「早入中書」。

此茶盌同時使用剪紙貼花及窯變兩種裝飾技法燒製，且能達到如此完
美及清晰的紋飾實為難得。剪紙貼花需要使用兩種不同顏色釉料才能
形成，而釉玳瑁釉為窯變釉， 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。而如此盌
能同時達到雙重裝飾效果則很不一般。

剪紙貼花裝飾技法為吉州窯工匠首創，相同之例可見見李輝柄編，
《中國陶瓷全集：宋（下）》，上海，1999年，圖217；以及Basil
Gray著，《Sung Porcelain and Stoneware》，倫敦，1984年，頁
127，圖100；英國維多利亞及阿伯特博物館藏也藏有兩例，見Rose
Kerr，《Song Dynasty Ceramics》，倫敦，2004年，頁109，圖110。
奉文堂藏中國古代陶瓷中也有一例，請參看拍品編號177。

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