A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO DEEP BOWL, NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO DEEP BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The deep, rounded sides are carved through the brown slip to the white slip ground with a band of 'cash' pattern, the brown slip extending over the mouth rim and falling in tears on the white slip-covered interior, all under a clear glaze that stops above the foot ring to reveal the buff stoneware body.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box and lacquered cover

Provenance
Mayuyama, Tokyo.

Literature
The Japan Ceramic Society, Soji Meihinten (Exhibition of Famous Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1955, no. 108.
Chugoku no Toji (Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1955, no. 200.
Koyama Fujio, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu (Collection of World’s Ceramics), vol. 10: China Sung and Liao Dynasties, Tokyo, 1955, no. 101.
Hasebe Gakuji,Toki Zenshu (Ceramics Anthology), vol. 13: So no Jishuyo, Tokyo, 1958, no. 29.
Koyama Fujio, ed., Toki Koza (Lecture of Ceramics), vol. 6: Chugoku II So (China II Song), Tokyo, 1971, no. 75.
Hasebe Gakuji, ed., Toji Taikei 39: Jishu Yo (Compendium of Ceramics 39: Cizhou Wares), Tokyo, 1974, no. 41.
Mayuyama Junkichi, Ryusen Shuho (Mayuyama, Seventy Years), vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 550.
Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, p. 110, fig. 112.
Special Exhibition, Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 2002, no. 47.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 133, no. 54.

Exhibited
The Japan Ceramic Society, Soji Meihinten (Exhibition of Famous Song Ceramics), Tokyo, April to May 1955.
The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Special Exhibition, Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka, 1 October to 8 December 2002.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.