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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
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A SMALL JIZHOU LEAF-DECORATED BOWL and then immersing the bowl in the dark brown glaze slurry. When fred in
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-13TH CENTURY the kiln, chemical reactions robbed the leaf of its dark brown color rendering
it transparent. The end result was a ghostly impression of the leaf structure,
The bowl has deep rounded sides rising to a fnger-grooved rim and is typically golden amber or pale yellow in color. For further discussion of
covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze and decorated on the the processes involved in producing leaf decoration and for two examples
interior with a gossamer imprint of a yellowish-amber leaf.
of bowls decorated in this manner, the frst from the collection of The Art
4º in. (10.9 cm.) diam. Institute of Chicago and the second from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Harvard University, see R. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge
$6,000-8,000 Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 259-62, nos. 107 and 108.
PROVENANCE
A bowl of this type from the Ataka Collection, classifed as Important
Alberto Manuel Cheung, New York, 29 January 2004.
Cultural Property, is in The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, and
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.
illustrated by G. Hasebe, Ceramic Art of the World, Sung Dynasty, Tokyo,
1977, vol. 12, pp. 109-10, fgs. 107-8. Another comparable bowl is illustrated
First appearing in the Southern Song dynasty, muye wenyang wan or shuye in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Tokyo National Museum,
tuyang wan (‘tree-leaf-pattern bowls’) are the most famous products of the Tokyo, 1980, vol. 1, no. 94.
Jizhou kilns and among the most celebrated of all ceramics made for tea
use. Such designs were created by afixing a leaf to the interior of a bowl 南宋 吉州窯木葉盌

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