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LOT 2270
Chinese Jianyao Brown Glazed Tea Bowl
SONG DYNASTY, 960-1279 A.D.
4 in. (140 grams, 10.2 cm).
Conical in profile with low base and rounded rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
Cf. Lally, J.J., Song Dynasty Ceramics, The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, New York, 2013, n.40, for similar.
Footnotes
Song literary and historical evidence confirm that Jianyao tea bowls were highly prized at the imperial court and famous throughout China during the Northern Song dynasty, and mention that the great aesthete and connoisseur Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125) was ‘. . . an enthusiastic devotee. . . of Jian tea bowls’.
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