A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. Southern Song dynasty, 12th/13th century - image-1

Lot 496 Dα

A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. Southern Song dynasty, 12th/13th century

Auction 1034 - overview Cologne
13.06.2014, 14:00 - Chinese Paintings, Works of Art, Porcelain, Ceramics of Art, Snuff Bottle
Estimate: 800 €
Result: 976 € (incl. premium)

A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. Southern Song dynasty, 12th/13th century

A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl with conical sides rounding up towards the rim, covered to the interior with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze with hare’s fur markings, the exterior with a dark brown splashed glaze in imitation of mottled tortoiseshell, ending short of the foot to expose the buff-coloured granular ware. Restored. Southern Song dynasty, 12th/13th century.
Diameter 11.3 cm

Certificate

TL-Test ASA, Paris, no. 407.032 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

Provenance

Wolfgang Nolting, Southern Germany

Literature

Compare a similar bowl: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers : Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, 1996, p. 248, 249, no. 100