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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A NORTHERN BLACK-WARE CIZHOU-TYPE PALE
STONEWARE ‘PARTRIDGE-FEATHER’ CONICAL BOWL
Northern Song/Jin Dynasty, late 11th-early 12th Century
Of deep conical shape, the interior with a lustrous black glaze
thinning to brown at the rim, liberally splashed in russet with
‘partridge feather’ mottling that splashes outward from the center,
the exterior with a russet brown glaze almost entirely covering the
black glaze beneath save for the edge of the rim and near the foot,
the foot ring and shallowly-cut base un-glazed and revealing the
buff stoneware.
5 1/8in (13cm) diameter

$6,000 - 8,000

北宋/金 十一世紀晚期/十二世紀早期 磁州系鷓鴣斑釉盌

Four bowls of varying size, though similar in diameter to ours,
are illustrated by Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics,
400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp.140-
144, no’s 37 a & b and 38 a & b. Each are also covered with
a mottled ‘Partridge-Feather’ glaze to the interiors and russet
glazes to the exteriors. All form part of the Arthur M. Sackler
Museum, Harvard University.

Another is illustrated by J.J. Lally, Oriental Art, Song Dynasty
Ceramics, The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, New York, March-
April, 2013, no. 57, where the author notes that similarly glazed tea
bowls of this form excavated from the Northern Song stratum of the
Cizhou kiln site at Guanti, Cixian, Hebei province are illustrated in
the excavation report, Guantai Cizhou yaozhi (The Cizhou Kiln Site
at Guantai), Beijing,1997, pl. 65-1, with line drawings illustrating the
profile of the distinctive shape (p. 268).

Another conical bowl with russet mottling to both the exterior and
interior and of slightly smaller size sold at Christie’s, New York, 17
March 2016, lot 1495.

Lot 89 (Two views)
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