CHINESE PAINTED JIZHOU 'BLOSSOMING PLUM AND CRESCENT MOON' TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
£1,008
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
南宋 吉州窯褐釉銀覆輪梅梢月茶盞
of conical shape with straight wall spring from the short foot ring, the dark brown glaze freely decorated with an abstract design of blossoming plum flowers under crescent moon in a light buff glaze, the exterior entirely plain and under a dark brown glaze falling short of the knife-cut edge to the low foot, the mouth rim with silver mount
Dimensions
13.5cm diameter
Footnote
A similarly decorated Jizhou bowl in the collection of the Harvard University Art Museums is illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 94, pp. 237-8. See another similarly decorated Jizhou bowl in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, San Francisco, 1996, p. 164, no. 301.