A JIZHOU PAPERCUT RESIST-DECORATED ‘PRUNUS’ BOWL, SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
China, 1127-1279. The rounded conical body detailed to the interior with twelve prunus blossoms arranged in two tiers around a single blossom in the center, all reserved in dark brown on the finely mottled buff and dark-brown ground, the exterior covered with a dark brown glaze that falls irregularly to the foot.


Provenance
: Yue Gu Zhai Antique Co., Hong Kong, 2001. A private collector in North Berwick, Scotland, who has been collecting Asian ceramics for 25 years, acquired from the above. Copies of the original receipt and a signed and sealed Certificate of Authenticity, both from Yue Gu Zhai Antique Co., dated 19 September 2001, and confirming the dating above, accompany this lot.

Condition
: Very good condition with expected old wear, weathering, and firing irregularities, small chips to the foot, minor fritting to the rim.

Weight: 147.9 g
Dimensions: Diameter 10.2 cm


Among the daring and innovative techniques
the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous for is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. Not only did the use of the papercut stencil facilitate the replication of individual motifs, it also permitted considerable variation in the interpretation of the standard design.


Almost always arranged in two tiers,
stylized plum blossoms appear as decoration both on conical bowls and yankou wan type bowls. Conical bowls generally support seventeen blossoms, including the one on the floor, however, numbers vary from bowl to bowl as do flower types.


Literature comparison:

Compare a related bowl from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 171, and another related bowl from the Avery Brundage Collection in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 250, no. 101. Also compare another related Jizhou paper-cut 'prunus' bowl, Southern Song dynasty, illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 382, no. 173.


Auction result comparison:

Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 14 September 2018, lot 1304
Price: USD 11,250 or approx.
EUR 12,500
converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A Jizhou paper cut resist-decorated tea bowl, Southern Song dynasty, late 12th-13th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and glaze. Note the size (12.1 cm).


Auction result comparison:

Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams London, 9 November 2017, lot 30
Price: GBP 10,625 or approx.
EUR 17,000
converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A fine and rare Jizhou paper-cut-out 'prunus-blossoms' bowl, Southern Song Dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and glaze. Note the size (12.3 cm).


Auction result comparison:

Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2015, lot 205
Price: HKD 118,750 or approx.
EUR 16,000
converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A Jizhou ‘papercut’ 'prunus’ bowl, Southern Song Dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and glaze.




南宋吉州貼花碗

中國，1127-1279年。此碗外壁敷黑釉，足部露胎。碗內部窯變花斑釉色，其上以剪紙貼花技法燒製出花紋，花朵小巧可愛，上下兩圈，相互錯落排開，中央一朵。其釉色均勻，紋飾巧俊，渾樸天然。


來源：
香港悅古齋，2001年；蘇格蘭北伯利克私人收藏，25年來，他一直在收集亞洲陶瓷，這些陶瓷都是從上述古玩店購得的。此拍品附有悅古齋古董有限公司出具的原始收據副本，以及簽名蓋章的真品證書副本，日期為 2001 年 9 月 19 日，並確認了上述日期。

品相：
狀況極好，有磨損、風化和燒製不規則，足部有小缺口，邊緣有輕微磨損。

重量：147.9 克
尺寸：直徑 10.2 厘米


文獻比較：

比較一件相近的吉州花碗，收藏於Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts，波士頓，見Oriental Ceramics，《The World's Great Collections》，東京，1980年，卷10，編號171。另一件相近的吉州花碗 ，見Avery Brundage收藏於舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，見R. Mowry，《Hare's Fur，Tortoiseshell，and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics，400-1400》，劍橋，麻塞諸塞州，1996年，頁250，編號101。另一件相近的南宋吉州梅花紋碗，見《Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection》，香港，1994，頁382，編號173。


拍賣結果比較：

形制：非常相近
拍賣：紐約佳士得，2018年9月14日，lot 1304
價格：USD 11,250（相當於今日
EUR 12,500
）
描述：南宋吉州窯剪紙貼花盌
專家評論：比較非常相近外形，裝飾和釉面。請注意尺寸 (12.1厘米)。


拍賣結果比較：

形制：非常相近
拍賣：倫敦邦翰斯，2017年11月9日，lot 30
價格：GBP 10,625（相當於今日
EUR 17,000
）
描述：南宋吉州窯剪紙貼梅花紋盌
專家評論：比較非常相近外形，裝飾和釉面。請注意尺寸 (12.3厘米)。


拍賣結果比較：

形制：非常相近
拍賣：香港蘇富比，2015年12月3日，lot 205
價格：HKD 118,750（相當於今日
EUR 16,000
）
描述：南宋吉州窰剪紙貼花梅花盌
專家評論：比較非常相近外形，裝飾和釉面。