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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
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A JIZHOU PAPERCUT RESIST-DECORATED TEA BOWL Among the daring and innovative techniques the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-13TH CENTURY are most famous for is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to
create resist designs. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing
The rounded conical body is resist-decorated on the interior with twelve
designs using paper cut-outs, see R. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
paper-cut plum blossoms arranged in two tiers above a single blossom in the
Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400,
center, all reserved in dark brown on the fnely mottled buf and dark brown
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7.
ground, and the exterior is covered with a dark brown glaze that falls irregularly
to the foot.
Compare the very similar bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) diam. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great
Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 171, and the related bowl from the Avery
$4,000-6,000 Brundage Collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by
R. Mowry, ibid., p. 250, no. 101. See, also, the very similar bowl from the Charlotte
Horstmann Collection sold in these rooms, 26 May 2003, lot 218.
PROVENANCE
Alberto Manuel Cheung, New York, 30 January 2003. 南宋 吉州窯剪紙貼花盌
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

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