A Chinese Jizhou Paper-Cut decorated conical bowl, Southern Song Dynasty, 12TH-13th century, the interior of the shallow flared sides decorated in resist technique with paper-cut decoration of three floral sprays reserved in brown against the finely variegated, milky buff ground, the exterior covered with a glaze of dark brown colour mottled in beige falling short of a knife-cut edge above the low, narrow ring foot. With a fitted box. Another bowl with the similar decoration and shape, see Christie's New York, 26/3/2010, lot 1334. /, 15 cm diameter.