Lot 817. A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 900/1.200 €. Lot sold 900 €. 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. 11 cm. Glaze slightly corroded and with craquelure

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