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187 The phrase, ‘shoushan fuhai’ translates to ‘mountain of longevity and
sea of fortune’.
A rare gold-inscribed Jizhou black-glazed conical
bowl Several similar examples with the same four characters in gold have
Southern Song Dynasty been published including: a bowl in the Songde Tang Collection,
exhibited at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery,
Potted with steep sides rising to a finger groove below the mouth illustrated in the catalogue The Multiplicity of Simplicity, Monochrome
rim, the interior gilt decorated with cartouches containing characters, wares from the Song to the Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 24 May -
together forming the phrase shou shan fu hai, covered overall with 25 November 2012, p.267; one formerly in the Seligman Collection,
a lustrous black glaze ending in an irregular line above the foot now in The British Museum, London, illustrated by Basil Gray, Sung
exposing the grey-orange ware. Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1984, p.127, no.101; and another
13cm diam. attributed to the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang, Fujian, illustrated by Robert
D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese
HK$700,000 - 900,000 Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996,
US$90,000 - 120,000 pp.224-225, no.86.

南宋 吉州窯黑釉描金壽山福海茶盌

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