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21. RARE BLACK AND RUSSET-GLAZED YAOZHOU FLORAL BOWL
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The bowl has six floral petals at the rim with bold russet streaks largely to the interior. More often associated with the Henan kilns, this combination of black and russet colours is a very rare instance in Yaozhou ware. The floral shape is articulated at the rim; the free application of russet streaks is distinctive and different to Henan examples. Better known for its classic celadon wares, the Yaozhou kilns had been firing black and white wares from the Tang period. Shards have been uncovered at the kiln with very similar black and russet decoration. See Zhou Zhenxi and Lu Jianguo, ‘Yaozhouyao yizhi diaocha fajue xin shouhuo’ (An examination of new discoveries at the Yaozhou kilns), Kaogu yu wenwu 3 (1980), p. 56 fig. 2, no. 4. A very similar example of this type from the Myron S. Falk Collection is published by Robert Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and-Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, no. 21; see ibid. no. 22 for a conical bowl from the same kiln. Two persimmon-glazed bowls of the same shape are published in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, nos. 47 and 48. |
