Monochrome II
Monochrome II
PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION 青山居珍藏
A SUPERB JIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED 'LEAF' BOWL SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY | 南宋 吉州窰黑釉木葉天目茶盞
Auction Closed
October 9, 06:06 AM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Aoyama Studio Collection
A SUPERB JIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED 'LEAF' BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
青山居珍藏
南宋 吉州窰黑釉木葉天目茶盞
of conical shape, covered with a lustrous brownish-black glaze thinning at the rim, decorated on the interior with a worm-eaten leaf, forming an attractive honey-brown silhouette, the foot left unglazed revealing the pale body, Japanese wood box
15.5 cm, 6 ⅛ in.
A Japanese private collection, Tokyo.
日本東京私人收藏
The Jizhou kilns at Yonghezhen, Ji'an county in Jiangxi province, a region formerly called Jizhou, were not blessed with the finest raw materials for making stonewares, but came up with the most original ideas for decorating. They were unique in exploiting the chemical composition of real tree leaves for making tea bowls with most naturalistic – because natural – silhouette leaf designs.
See a related bowl illustrated in Gugong Songci tulu. Longquan yao, Geyao ji qita ge yao/Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Lung-ch'üan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 72; and another bowl from the collection of Alfred Clark, included in Ryūsen Shūhō / Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, pl. 677, and sold in our London rooms, 11th May 2011, lot 3.