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Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Chinese

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

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