A 'JIZHOU' 'PHOENIX' BOWL SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

of conical form, decorated on the interior with a pair of long-tailed phoenix, interspersed with a butterfly and a floret, all reserved in rich dark brown against the densely variegated buff ground, the exterior splashed and streaked with tan-colored  'tortoiseshell' markings, stopping short of the narrow knife-paired foot

Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, no. 53.

There is a section on the exterior of the rim, approx. 2 1/4 in. long which has been touched up.
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See a related bowl in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, included in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, Bath, 1993, cat. no. 112; and another in the Mitsui Library, Tokyo, of slightly smaller size, illustrated in Chugoku no toji. Temmoku. Tokyo, 1999, pl. 54.