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ALAN AMERO AND THE $1,357,000 BOWL movable print was also developed during the Song Dynasty.
Amero, with Dawn Freeman, and Chris Ball, having previously auctioned a
Dorothea Killian Ming blue and white porcelain jar to a hammer price of $35,400 for the same
In Sarasota, Florida, this Spring Alan Amero auctioned a $1,357,000 Chinese seller, were then charged with auctioning this ultra-rare brush bowl. During a
brush bowl. It had been created during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) for short twenty minutes, aggressive bidders both online and in the gallery, bid up
use in the Imperial Court. This 10-inch stoneware, Ru Ware, (Official Ware), the bowl to a final hammer price well surpassing auction estimate. International
pottery bowl is simple of design. Notice the shape of this bowl made in first collectors recognized this Ru Ware brush bowl as being extraordinarily special
millennium Ruzhou, China. How the creators strove for elegance of shape and and it was won by a determined online bidder in Italy.
balance; hoping to create something both lasting and of pleasing proportions. We might marvel that a bowl, created at the turn of the first millennium, has
Recognizable by its unpretentious “duck egg” traveled from Ruzhou, to the Song Imperial
grayish-blue crackle glaze, the bowl was used Court, later to other Chinese cities, and on
for rinsing the animal hair bristle brush of an to locations in USA, New York City, east and
Imperial Court artist-calligrapher. Bowls of this west coast Florida, then perhaps Italy. No
type would have been strictly restricted to the doubt the stoneware composition of this rare
use of Song Dynasty court artists. The extant bowl has helped keep it intact, but a careful
brush bowls of the era, when found today, stewardship by successive collectors allows
are usually smaller than this example. An us all to be exposed to its simple beauty
animal hair bristle brush used then varied in through Amero’s auction catalogue photos.
size from small, medium, large, to extra-large, The famed Northern Song Dynasty kilns of
and this bowl could accommodate those size Ruzhou, China, are legendary, regarding the
variations. artistic development of their Ru Ware. Their
The Ru kiln produced this stoneware during stoneware recipe and glazes, firing with an
a time when the Northern Song emperors intended serendipitous pattern of craquelure,
Zhezong (1085-1110) and Huizong (1110- identifies a philosophy which informed the
1125) were rulers. Because this pottery was creation of this bowl; a philosophy reflecting
made for a relatively short time during the to us, across the ages, the philosophy of that
70 Song Dynasty, there are now very few intact examples. During the twentieth 17
University Pkwy ancient reigning dynasty.
century, this particular brush bowl had traveled to New York City. It has the label An energetic man, Alan Amero has been involved in Sarasota auctions for 25
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301 Lockwood Ridge Rd of antique dealer Roland Moore of New York and Amsterdam. years. But as an auctioneer himself he’s full of a ‘new is gold’ energy. He might
MLK Hwy A letter is included with this $1,357,000 brush bowl lot, verifying that the simply refer to the energetic bidding on this bowl as “Crazy Fortunate” while we
Sarasota bowl was bought during a 1940 exhibition of Chinese arts in New York. Song also notice how the planning, the right seller, a rare object, co-auctioneer Dawn
Central
10th
Fruitville Dynasty artifacts are doubly important to collectors because during that era Freeman, the auction team, the auctioneer, and a determined anonymous
the first paper money, was introduced. The first permanent Chinese navy was bidder, can involve us all. Amero’s auction operates bi-monthly in the Antiques
established. And history shows us the monumentally important innovation of Gallery of Sarasota, at 1502 N. Lime Ave. Next auction is Sunday, June 2.
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