Two Jizhou ware tea bowls - Southern Song/Yuan Dynasty

The smaller bowl of inverted bell form with flared rim displaying a tortoise shell glaze of mottled amber splashes on the dark ferruginous ground (base drilled); the larger bowl of conical form displaying on its shallow well an abstracted prunus branch and cloud design in bluish-white slip on the dark ferruginous ground (both with degraded glazes). 4 1/2 and 5 3/4in (11.5 and 14.5cm) diameter - Sold for $3,000 plus Premium and tax

Note: The results of Oxford Authentication ltd. Thermoluminescence test sample no. P102g81, dated 17 April 2002, on the smaller bowl are consistent with the dating of this lot.

Bonhams. Fine Asian Works of Art, 18 Dec 2007. 220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, California