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Past Exhibition

SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection

March 15 - April 13, 2013

A PAINTED JIZHOU ‘MOON AND PRUNUS’ TEA BOWL
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A PAINTED JIZHOU ‘MOON AND PRUNUS’ TEA BOWL

Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)

with gently rounded flaring sides, moulded with a raised border around the interior rim and with a shallow recessed ‘finger groove’ below the lip on the exterior, painted on the interior in buff-colored slip with a branch of blossoming plum on one side and a crescent moon and wispy clouds on opposite side, all freely drawn in fluid brushstrokes over the dark chocolate-brown glaze which continues over the reverse, ending in wide arcs above the knife-cut small ring foot, the lower sides, foot, and base unglazed, the oatmeal-colored pottery with pale reddish staining on the surface.

Diameter 4 58 inches (11.8 cm)

A similar Jizhou tea bowl decorated in the same technique with the same motif in the collection of the National Museum of China is illustrated by Peng in Ya su zhi jian: Jizhou yao (Jizhou Kiln), Beijing, 2007, p. 100, no. 57. Another similar example in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, from the collection of Avery Brundage is illustrated by He, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide, London, 1996, p. 164, no. 301; also illustrated by Bickford in Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art, New Haven, 1985, p. 203, fig. 90; and another similar example is illustrated by Wirgin, ‘Some Ceramic Wares from Chi-Chou,’ B.M.F.E.A. Bulletin, No. 34, Stockholm, 1962, pl. 6-b.

Compare also the Jizhou bowl of this type in the collection of Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 237-238, no. 94, where the author observes “Although they are usually said to be painted in slip, overglaze buff designs of this type were most likely painted on the raw glaze surface using a wood- or bamboo-ash paste that perhaps included an admixture of slip.”

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36.
A PAINTED JIZHOU ‘MOON AND PRUNUS’ TEA BOWL

Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)

Diameter 4 58 inches (11.8 cm)

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