A Cizhou-type black dish with russet splashes – Jin/Yuan Dynasty
The dish is thickly potted with straight sides ending in an incurved rim. It is covered in a black glaze turning brown where thinner. The inside is decorated with five russet-colored splashes on the sides and there is a ring-shaped unglazed area in the center from a stacking ring. The lower part of the outside and the base is unglazed and the buff-colored clay is revealed.
Dark-glazed bowls and dishes of this type, decorated with russet splashes, usually numbering between three and five, were popular wares produced at various Cizhou-type kilns in the north. They are usually dated to 12th-13th century but were also produced later in the Yuan dynasty. This one was probably made in Shanxi or Shaanxi.
Period: Jin/Yuan dynasty (1115-1368)
Size: Diameter 13.7 cm, height 3.2 cm
Condition: Very good condition, light wear and minor firing flaws, slightly warped, no cracks or repairs found with UV-light.
Provenance: From a private British collection
SKU: 94
References: For examples of black bowls with unglazed rings in the center see examples excavated in Shaanxi in The specimens of ancient Chinese kilns in the collection of the Palace Museum – Bejing, Shandong, Shaanxi, Ningxia, And Liaoning Volume, Feng Xiaoqi, The forbidden city publishing house, 2013, No 87,88.
For a Shanxi example with russet splashed decoration see bowl from the Palace Museum illustrated in Porcelains of Yuan Dynasty Collected by the Palace Museum II, 2016, no. 264.
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