Southern Song DynastyPotted with wide flaring sides rising to an everted rim, covered overall in a brown-black glaze ending above the foot exposing the orange-white ware, the interior decorated with an applied bluish-buff coloured leaf revealing all its veins. 10.8cm diam., 5.5cm highThere are two similar examples to the current lot. The first is from the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and the second is from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. Both are illustrated by Robert Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp.259-62, no.107 and 108. Another related bowl of such high quality and similar size, formerly in the Yi Qing Ge Collection of Chinese Ceramics, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2003.Provenance: Private collection from Hampshire