Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
The tea bowl has slightly rounded conical sides rising to a finger-grooved band modelled with a ridge below the rim.
The interior is decorated in resist technique with a pattern of fifteen plum florets reserved in dark brown against a finely variegated buff matte
ground. The exterior is covered with a dark brown glaze over a brown wash stopping short of the knife-cut foot.
Diameter: 12 cm
A similar bowl from the Simon Kwan Collection is illustrated in 'Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection', Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1994, No 173
Another in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr in 'Song Dynasty Ceramics, London 2004, No 111
A slightly larger conical bowl with seventeen plum blossoms is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and illustrated by Robert D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown-and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Massachusetts 1996, No 101
EF 60 南宋 吉州窯 剪紙貼花梅花紋茶盞
時代：南宋，12至13世紀。
特徵：斜壁，淺圈足。外壁施深棕色釉，底足無釉。內壁淺黃褐色、細膩的兔毫紋地上以剪紙貼花技法裝飾十五朵深棕色梅花紋。
尺寸：直徑12公分。
