A rare guanyao mallow-form bowl, Southern Song-Ming dynasty (1127-1644)

15 mars 2019

A rare guanyao mallow-form bowl, Southern Song-Ming dynasty (1127-1644)

Lot 616. A rare guanyao mallow-form bowl, Southern Song-Ming dynasty (1127-1644). Diameter 4 1/2 in., 11.1 cm. Estimate: US$80,000 - US$120,000. Lot Sold 350,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the thinly potted body with rounded sides rising from a narrow tapering foot to a flaring rim notched into six lobes, covered overall with a thick opaque glaze of grayish blue-green color, suffused with a matrix of dark gray and pale golden crackles, ending neatly at the foot revealing the dark brown body, the recessed base also glazed.

Property from the Collection of Robert Youngman.

Provenance: Mathias Komor, New York, May 1950.
Collection of Pauline (1910-2000) and Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1907-1992).
Christie's New York, 20th September 2001, lot 112.

Exhibited: Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects- The Myron S. Falk Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, MA, 1957, cat. no. 22.
Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, September 2005.

Literature: Robert P. Youngman, The Five Famous Imperial Wares of the Song Dynasty, self-published, 2000, pp. 22-23.

Note: Guan wares were made in very small numbers, and the present bowl is an extremely rare example. The unctuous glaze of the present bowl with its pleasing texture was achieved through the gradual application of multiple glaze layers and successive firings. The distinct crackling was caused by different degrees of shrinkage between the glaze and body material, produced by a well-controlled cooling process after the last firing and subsequent staining.

Related bowls attributed to the Southern Song dynasty include two examples in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, Hong Kong, 1989, cat. nos 106 and 107, and three examples of six-petal rimmed bowls of slightly smaller size illustrated in Selection of Ge Ware, The Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries, Beijing, 2017, pls 31-33.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 20 march 2019

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