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A CIZHOU RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED SHALLOW A SMALL JUNYAO BOWL
BOWL Song/Jin dynasty, 11th/12th century
Song/Jin dynasty, 12th/13th century Raised on a short, narrow circular foot, the conical sides tapering
The conical sides curving up to the unglazed rim and covered with a inward at the rim and covered in and out with a grey-blue lavender
brilliant black-brown glaze on the interior with five russet splashes, the glaze with light crackle in places and paling to a mushroom tone at the
exterior black glaze stopping unevenly at the mid-point of the vessel rim.
revealing the hard, buff body. 2 1/8in (5.3cm) high; 4 5/8in (11cm) diameter
1 3/4in (4.4cm) high; 4 5/8in (11.7cm) diameter
$4,000 - 6,000
$1,500 - 2,000
宋/金 十一/十二世紀 鈞窯盌
宋/金 十二/十三世紀 磁州黑釉鐵銹斑盌
This well-proportioned bowl with its plain lavender glaze typifies
Dark-glazed bowls of this type, with large, evenly-spaced russet the elegant simplicity of Junyao wares. For a slightly smaller plain
splashes, usually numbering three and five, were popular at the lavender-glazed Junyao bowl, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, The Fen
various Cizhou kiln sites, as were those with silvery markings. For Wen Tang Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics, 9 October 2014, lot
two examples see Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and 116; and a further example at Christie’s, London, 7 November 2012,
Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400- lot 458.
1400, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1996, pp.154-156, nos. 47 and 48.

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