Description
Description: Chinese small bowl glazed inside with a bluish yingqing (qingbai) glaze and outside with a brown glaze stopping halfway from the foot. The rim is unglazed and the bowl has been fired upside down.
Dating: Song dynasty.
Size: 9.1 cm diameter
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: The association of qingbai and brown glazes is extremely rare. There is a bowl in the Percival David Foundation which is described as “white glaze inside and brown glaze outside”, but most probably the inside glaze is just a transparent glaze, not of the qingbai type. Another bowl is illustrated at pag. 126 of “The Museum of East Asian Art – The Inaugural Exhibition” of the Bath’s Museum, which description says that the inside has a yingqing glaze, but at least by the pictures that glaze doesn’t seem to be yingqing. It may either be matter of picture, or wrong description. The glaze seems white glaze, in which case the bowl should be from the Nanfeng kiln, where bowls with brown and white glaze together were fired, as for example the one seen at p[age 167 of the same book. Another example of white and brown glazed bowl from the Nanfeng kiln is illustrated at page 267 of “Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers” book.
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