A Chinese russet-splashed blackish-brown-glazed bowl

Song-Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century
The ribbed rising sides rising towards a pronounced upright rim, covered to the interior with three bold russet splashes on a black and brown speckled ground, the glaze running over to the exterior stopping above the foot revealing the sand-coloured buff.
Diam. 18.4 cm

Provenance:
- Collection Michel Paciello, Venice (2000)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam

Compare:
- [cat.] Feuer und Erde. Chinesische Frühkeramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Köln 2008, no. 171, p. 212
- R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vols. I-II, London 1994, no. 466, p. 256
- [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 42, p. 148
- [cat.] R. Keverne, London 2002, no. 64