Black and Russet-glazed Stoneware Bowl
Northern Song - Jin period, 11th - 12th century
£40,000
Black-brown-glazed stoneware bowl of conical shape with a short straight lip, standing on a subtly flared circular foot-ring. The interior of the bowl is covered in a glossy black-brown glaze splashed with russet ‘partridge feather’ streaks. The exterior of the bowl is covered with an identical black-brown glaze, stopping irregularly above the foot to expose the buff body.
Diameter: 14.7cm
Provenance:
Dr Melvin Jahss (1921-2009), New York.
Similar example:
Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400 - 1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, number 36, for a comparable bowl with a flared rim, now in the Harvard University Art Museums.