Lot 66

[DRINKING CULTURE] RARE CHINESE JIZHOU PAPER-CUT-DECORATED 'DEER AND TREE' TEA BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Fine Asian Works of Art

Auction: 06 November 2026 from 10:00 GMT

Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000

Description

南宋吉州窯外玳瑁內剪紙貼花鹿樹紋茶盞

potted with rounded sides, decorated on the interior in resist technique with three foliate roundels, each depicting a deer under large tree, all below a foliate band, all reserved in brown and buff against the variegated, milky buff ground, the exterior covered in a 'tortoiseshell' glaze of dark brown colour mottled in beige that falls irregularly to the foot, revealing the buff stoneware body

Dimensions

12cm diameter

Provenance

Private French collection

法國私人收藏

Footnote

The technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs was one of the innovative decorative techniques employed at the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing these designs, see R. D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 36-8. Mowry illustrates, ibid., pp. 248-9, no. 100, a related Jizhou bowl with three quatrefoil floral medallions on the interior, from the private collection of R. Hatfield Ellsworth, which was subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2015, lot 851. A further comparable Jizhou bowl decorated with three quaterlobed flower heads, was in the Linyushanren Collection and then sold at the same saleroom on 15 September 2016, lot 708.

使用剪紙作為模版來製作貼花紋樣的技術，是江西吉州窯所採用的一種創新裝飾技法。關於此類紋樣製作過程的討論，參見R. D. Mowry，《兔毫、玳瑁與鷓鴣斑：中國褐釉與黑釉陶瓷，400–1400年》，劍橋，1996年，第36–38頁。Mowry於同書第248–249頁，編號100，展示了一件相關的吉州窯碗，內壁飾有三個四葉形花卉開光，出自R. Hatfield Ellsworth私人收藏，該器後於2015年3月20日在紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品851。另一件可資比較的吉州窯碗，飾有三個四瓣形花頭，曾為臨宇山人收藏，後於2016年9月15日於同一拍賣行售出，拍品708。