A PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED JIZHOU 'PHOENIX' BOWL
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A PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED JIZHOU 'PHOENIX' BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED JIZHOU 'PHOENIX' BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The widely flared conical bowl is decorated on the interior in resist technique with three long-tailed phoenixes in flight above one flower head in the center, all reserved on a dark-brown glaze against a variegated olive-beige ground. The exterior has numerous pale buff spots on a blackish-brown ground that stops unevenly above the exposed stoneware pottery foot.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.

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