A black and russet-splashed deep bowl and coverNorthern Song/Jin dynastyThe bowl with deep rounded sides rising from a well-cut foot ring, the walls splashed with large russet patches of 'partridge feathers' type on a blackish-brown glaze also covering the interior well marked with three spur marks rising from the floor, the unglazed surfaces of the rim, foot pad and portions of the recessed base showing the buff fabric; the domed cover with a flat rim and twig-shaped handle glazed en suite and the unglazed buff fabric exposed on the underside.5 3/4in (14.5cm) high (2).注脚Provenance:Property from a San Francisco EstateThe spur marks on the floor of the well to the bowl - used to support a smaller object during firing- also appear on the bowl with a cover of similar size and glaze from the Falk Collection, discussed by Robert D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black- Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 39, pp. 144-145. The Falk Collection bowl was sold at Christie's, New York sale 16 October 2001, lot 9822. See also the black and russet-splashed bowl and cover of smaller size sold at Christie's, New York sale, 13-14 September 2018, lot 15706.