A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. 12th/13th century - image-1

Lot 20 Dα

A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. 12th/13th century

Auction 1044 - overview Cologne
05.12.2014, 10:00 - China - Porcelain and Ceramics (incl. the Elbrecht Collection)
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 5.580 € (incl. premium)

A small Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl. 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. 12th/13th century.
Diameter 11.8 cm

12/13世紀 吉州窯黑釉剪紙仿玳瑁紋碗

Provenance

Acquired from Anne Roselt, Cologne, 1986
Collection Annelotte Elbrecht (1924-2013)

Literature

Compare a similar bowl: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partidge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, 1996, p. 248, 239, no. 100