Lot 97. A 'Jizhou' splashed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter 5 in., 12.9 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

the deep rounded sides flaring out from a narrow recessed foot, covered overall with a glossy dark brown glaze accented with russet-brown splashes, stopping just above the knife-pared foot, the base left unglazed revealing the buff body. 

Literature: Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, no. 54. 

Note: See a related bowl in the Muwen Tang collection and included in the exhibition Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat. no. 170. Another Jizhou bowl similarly decorated but of conical form is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Tokyo, vol. 12, 1977, nos. 103-104; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, no. 43 and sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3rd November 1996, lot 525.

Sotheby's. Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection. New York, 17 march 2015, 11:00 AM