A PAINTED CIZHOU BOWL, SONG DYNASTYChina, Song dynasty (960-1279). The creamy-white glaze painted in dark brown to depict abstracted flowers within a spiral medallion. The outside covered almost entirely with a dark brown glaze.Provenance: Collection Friedrich Otto Hasse (1886-1964), Bremen, Germany. Thence by decent. See image of the collector’s cabinet, in the center of the lower shelf. Old collector label to underside with inscription "Sung 960-1279".Condition: One short hairline, one minuscule chip. A three-cm-chip with an old restoration (well visible on our detail images at www.zacke.at). Old wear and some kiln grit. Given the high age of this piece, and it’s absolutely doubtless authenticity, the condition is still very, very good.Weight: 450.5 grams.Dimensions: Diameter 18.7 cm.The industrialist Friedrich Otto Hasse was considered a knowledgeable art collector in his time. He owned paintings by artists of his generation such as Kokoschka, Braque, Ensor, Vlaminck and others. He also participated in the 1920s trend of collecting Chinese art. A photograph from around 1980 shows a part of his collection, approximately 50 ceramics and bronzes in a glass cabinet (see detail picture online). One of the main subjects of the collection was Chinese ceramics from the Song to Ming dynasties. He acquired these pieces, as documented by extant invoices, at Hugo Meyl in 1924 and at the Cassirer & Helbing auctions in Berlin. The documents suggest that his main period of collecting was between 1924 and 1929.宋代磁州窯碗中國，宋代（960-1279）。 碗中央白地褐色花。外壁整體施褐色釉。來源：德國不來梅Friedrich Otto Hasse （1886-1964）收藏至今。見藏家展櫃圖片下方中間。底部有老收藏標簽 "Sung 960-1279"。品相： 一條短髮絲綫，一處微不足道小開片。一條三厘米長已修復的裂紋（可參見www.zacke.at上的细节图）。舊磨損及一些窯砂。其斷代不可置疑，對於其年代來説已經是保存極好了。重量：450.5 克尺寸： 直徑18.7 厘米