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A PAIR OF ‘JIZHOU’ ‘TORTOISESHELL’- deep amber to taupe, as seen on the present bowls. The e ect
GLAZED BOWLS seems to have been created by rst dipping the vessel in a
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY medium-brown slip glaze then, following the drying, dipping it
in a darker brown glaze slurry, splashing it with a paste of wood
each with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, or bamboo-ash and water, drying it again, and nally ring it
covered overall with a dark brownish-black glaze and splashed right side up in the saggar.
with caramel-beige tones simulating tortoiseshell, the glaze
stopping neatly above the short foot (2) A slightly larger tea bowl in the Simon Kwan Collection was
Diameter 4½ in., 11.4 cm exhibited in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 170; and a
Southern Song potters at Jiangxi province’s Jizhou kilns similar one sold in our London rooms, 19th June, 2002. A tea
developed this lively dappled glaze to apply to various forms bowl with similar coloration to the present examples sold in
of stoneware cups, bowls, and vases. Known in Chinese and our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2014, lot 3624; and one with
English as ‘tortoiseshell’ glaze, it is characterized by an overall caramel-colored splashes sold in those same rooms, 2nd-3rd
black-co ee color in ected with creamy tones ranging from June 2016, lot 648.
$ 30,000-50,000
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