Provenance: Baron Masuda (Masuda Takashi, 1848-1938) Collection, Tokyo (according to label on box).
Linyushanren Collection, Japan.

Exhibited: Nagoya, Maruei department store, Exhibition for One Hundred Tea Bowl, 16-21 November 1968.

Note: Among the daring and innovative techniques for which the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. Carefully detailed on the interior with fifteen stylized papercut plum blossoms, with an extremely well-preserved glossy glaze, this bowl is an exceptional example of its type. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing designs using paper cut-outs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7.

A bowl of similar decoration and size (15.2 cm. diam.), but a more golden-toned ground on the interior, from the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by R. Mowry, ibid., p. 250, no. 101. For examples of smaller size, see a 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 the bowl from the Charlotte Horstmann Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 26 May 2003, lot 218.

Lot 912. A superb and very rare Ge foliate dish, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty (1127-1368); 14 cm diam, fitted cloth box. Price realised USD 1,865,000 (Estimate USD 1,800,000 – USD  2,500,000) © Christie’s 2024.

Provenance: C. F. Yao (Yao Chang Foo, 1884-1963) Collection, New York.
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.
Property from an American Private Collection; Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 151.
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
Linyushanren Collection, Japan.

Literature: H. Trubner, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles, 1952, p. 69, no. 111.
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, 2006, p. 48, no. 57.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 188-191, no. 80.
R. Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 22.

Exhibited: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, 14 March-27 April 1952.
Tokyo, Sen Shu Tey, Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, 2006.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22-27 November 2012; New York, 15-20 March 2013; London, 10-14 May 2013.

Christie's. Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, New York, 22 march 2024.