J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

March 12 - April 4, 2009

17.
A SMALL ‘PERSIMMON-BROWN’-GLAZED YAOZHOU BOWL

Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)

of well-potted patra shape, the gently rounded flaring sides rising from a slightly concave small circular base to a wide mouth with rounded inverted lipless rim, covered inside and out with a lustrous russet-skinned dark brown glaze ending neatly at the edge of a knife-pared angle just above the base, the surface of the exposed pale gray stoneware body fired to buff-tan color.

Diameter 4 1 inches (10.5 cm)

Exhibited:
Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, travelling exhibition: Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museum; New York, China Institute Gallery; Madison, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, 1996-1997

Published:
Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 26, pp. 126-127
Mowry, ‘Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Gordon,’ Orientations, March 2004, fig. 2, p. 116

No other Yaozhou bowl of this form and glaze appears to have been published.

北宋  耀州醬釉小盂  徑 10.5 厘米