A Cizhou type black bowl with iron rust stains, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 11th-12th century. Estimate: € 1,400 - € 1,600. Photo courtesy Lempertz 1845

Conical bowl with flaring rim, covered with black glaze with iron rust stains that lets the lower quarter free. Beige stoneware shards with brown engobe around the foot. D 12.2 cm

Provenance: Wolfgang Nolting, Rheinland-Pfalz (acquired from Galerie Tung-Fa Tseng, Stuttgart, 29.06.1988)
Sotheby's, Amsterdam 06.06.1988, lot 238

Literature: Compare: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge 1996, no 38 A & B.

Lempertz 1845. Asian Art, 06.03.2015, 10:00, Cologne