Description A Jizhou Conical Bowl Southern Song dynasty, The interior of the shallow flared sides decorated in resist technique with paper-cut decoration of two long-tailed phoenixes in flight between two prunus blossoms, all reserved in brown against the finely variegated, milky buff ground, the exterior covered with a 'tortoiseshell' glaze of dark brown color mottled in beige falling short of a knife-cut edge above the low, narrow ring foot, Height 2 1/8" Diameter 4 1/2"