Lot 1333. Two brownish-black and white-glazed pottery bowls,Song dynasty, 12th-13th century; 8 1/8 and 5 in. (20.7 and 12.6 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 5,625. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010. 

Both with steep sides rising to an unglazed rim and glazed white on the interior, the larger bowl of Ding type and covered on the exterior with a glaze of blackish tone which covers the foot and footrim, the smaller covered in a glaze of mottled blackish tone stopping in an irregular line above the foot, which is covered in a brown wash partially revealing the buff ware.

Provenance: The larger: John Platt/Warren E. Cox Collection.
Judge Edgar Bromberger Collection.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 November 1980, lot 124.
The smaller: Christie's, New York, 5 June 1986, lot 203 (not illustrated).

Literature: The larger: Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1944, fig. 348 (published as black Dingyao).

Exhibited: The larger: Brooklyn Museum, prior to 1944.
Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9 September - 9 October 1947, no. 73.
Early Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 11 April - 31 May 1959, no. 88.
Both: on loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010