Yuan dynasty stoneware bowl

A Yuan dynasty (1279-1368 CE) Cizhou russet-striped black glazed deep stoneware bowl.

The deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior covered in a black glaze decorated with two rows of closely spaced vertical russet stripes, while black glaze on the exterior falls in an irregular line atop a thin russet-brown wash which ends above the foot to expose the fine buff ware.

Bowls of this type have been excavated from the Guantai kiln site in Cixian, Hebei province and are dated to the early to mid-14th century.

Related bowls are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in B. Gray, Sung Porcelain and Stoneware, London/Boston, 1984, p. 121, no. 97; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 181, no. 378; the David J. Menke Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, p. 170, no. 58; and the Barlow Collection, illustrated by M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades, London, 1963, no. 50a.