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A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISE 南宋 吉州窯玳瑁斑斗笠盌
SHELL’-GLAZED TEA BOWL 展覽
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) 香港大學美術博物館 ，《大繁若簡 - 宋金元朝的
The bowl has flared sides and is covered inside 單色釉瓷》，2012 年，圖版 105 號
and out with a dark brown glaze splashed
in amber tones reminiscent of tortoise shell, 相近例子可參考小山富士夫編《陶磁大系 —38—
stopping just above the foot. 天目》，東京，1974年，圖101、102。
5√ in. (15 cm.) diam., box

HK$150,000-300,000
US$20,000-39,000

EXHIBITED
University Museum and Art Gallery, The
University of Hong Kong, The Multiplicity of
Simplicity - Monochrome wares from the Song
to the Yuan dynasties, 2012, no. 105
The remarkable glaze seen on this bowl was
an innovation of the pioneering potters at
the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province. Known
as 'tortoiseshell' glaze, its name was derived
supposedly from its similarity to the shell of a
warm-water sea turtle known as the hawksbill.
Compare to a 'tortoiseshell'-glazed conical
bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection,
and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's
Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 172.

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