A 'CIZHOU' RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED BOWL NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY

with deep sloping sides supported on a short foot, the interior covered in a lustrous black glaze splashed with five russet streaks radiating from the white rim covered with a white slip band beneath a clear glaze, the exterior with black glaze and russet-brown slip falling short of the foot and revealing the buff body

Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, prior to 1988.

The bowl is in overall good condition. There is a hairline crack to the rim at around 6-7 o'clock position of the catalogue illustration measuring approx. 1 cm on the exterior and approx. 2 cm on the interior. There are also two faint hairlines at around the 8 o'clock position, only visible on the exterior.
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The present bowl belongs to a group of Northern blackwares of Cizhou type with distinctive russet-brown streaks to the glaze, reminiscent of the markings on hare’s fur. Compare a bowl of similar glaze and form included in the exhibition Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, cat. no. 42.