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A small moulded Yaozhou foliate dish The dish is delicately modelled with gently rounded sides everted at the rim and divided into six lobes divided by notches. The well is decorated with six moulded panels of stylized blooms amid their foliage, divided from each other by raised fillets, enclosing a central medallion showing a similar bloom. An olive-green glaze is applied overall pooling in the recesses of the decoration to a deeper tone. The small countersunk foot is unglazed, showing the every fine-grained grey ware. Part of a dish of this type was excavated from a mid Northern Song stratum of the Yaozhou kiln site, and is illustrated in Song Dai Yao Zhou Yao Zhi (The Song Dynasty Yaozhou Kiln Site), Beijing, 1998, fig 118, no.7, p.232. Another example of the type, from the Keme Collection, is illustrated by Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, pl.31, where the design is described by the author as a ‘C-type’ peony’. A third example was exhibited in the joint Japanese and Chinese exhibition The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, 1997/1998, catalogue no.70, p.54, and a fourth is in the Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, no. 128, p.142. Condition : Good condition Stock No. 873 Price : On Request
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A Cizhou-type white-ribbed black jar (guan) The jar of well potted ovoid form with a wide mouth with rolled lip. The sides are decorated with triplets of sharply ridge white dribs, set against the dark brown ground. The handles, shaped like tabbed loops, link the shoulders to the short, slightly taperd, neck. The glaze falls short of the base, to reveal the fine light-coloured body. Condition : Repair to chip on rim and to one handle Stock No. 703 Price : On Request
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A Cizhou-type russet-striped black-glazed bowl The bowl has broad rounded sides rising to a slightly incurved rim, supported on a low splayed foot with knife-pared footrim. The interior of the bowl is applied with a deep glossy black glaze decorated with a double register of radiating russet streaks. The black glaze also covers the upper part of the exterior, and is similarly decorated with a single register of short streaks. The lower part of the body is unglazed, showing the pale buff-coloured ware. Bowls decorated with a double register of russet streaks have been excavated from the Guantai kilns, Ci County, Hebei province, and are datable to the fourteenth century. For a discussion of this kind of design, see Mowry, Hare’s-fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers , p. 169,170, where he also illustrates a related bowl. Condition : Good condition Stock No. 699 Price : On Request
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An Imperial-tribute Jianyao 'hare's fur' teabowl The bowl is of wide conical form, know in Chinese is pie, with a low very slightly splayed solid foot cut with a shallow foot rim, from which springs the flared walls bulging slightly about two centimetres below the rim, forming the lower curve of the shallow finger groove, whose upper curve is the everted rim itself. The interior is applied with a black glaze with fine radial russet streaks, suggesting hare’s fur, also covering the exterior where it falls in an uneven thickened line above the base, revealing the dark body burnt to a dusty reddish-brown in the firing. The underside of the base is impressed with the two-character phrase jinzhan, 'presentation tea-bowl'. The rim has substantial traces of the original metal rim, about one and a half centimetres wide on the interior and just under half a centimetre on the exterior. The great majority of Jianyao tea bowls are unmarked, but a few bear an inscription on the base, usually gongyu, 'imperial tribute', or more rarely, as here, jinzhan, 'presentation tea-bowl'. Although Jian bowls have never been imperial wares in the manner of Ruyao, say, it is certainly the case that Song emperors and statesmen appreciated them highly as a matter of connoisseurship. Presumably, therefore, the ones with tribute marks were made especially to be presented to the court, though whether the Northern Song court in Kaifeng or the Southern Song court at Hangzhou, or perhaps both, is not known. For a fuller discussion of Jianyao tea bowls, including those with tribute marks, see Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, pp. 204 et seq., where the author also suggests that the flared pie-type tea bowls, as here, were used for the kind of tea prepared with jujubes, where the shallow form would make it easier to consume the extra ingredients. Condition : Original metal rim, now distressed Stock No. 674 Price : On Request
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