Lot 815. A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 1 000/1 500 €. Lot sold 1.700 €. Photo Nagel.

the bowl has conical sides rising from the knife-pared foot to the finger-grooved rim, and is covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze liberally splashed with a translucent yellow-brown glaze in imitation of mottled tortoiseshell, the glaze stopping just short of the foot to expose the light grey stoneware. D. 10,8 cm. Good condition

Provenance: Former South German private collection

Compare a similar bowl: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partidge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, 1996, p. 248, 239, no. 100 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015