1-233-544 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Jizhou stoneware bowl with paper-cut design of two phoenixes and flower heads, late Southern Song dynasty, China, 1200-1279. A Jizhou conical-shaped tea bowl decorated on the interior with two phoenixes, each facing the centre, and three six-petalled prunus flower heads all in paper cut technique. The bowl is covered with a tortoise-shell glaze, the decoration of phoenixes and flower heads without the speckled yellow tortoise-shell glaze. The base is unglazed revealing the greyish-buff body. The Jizhou kiln was one of the only Chinese kilns at that time using the paper-cut technique.