Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

Bottle
North China, probably from Xiuwu or Cizhou
Northern Song period (960–1127), 12th century
Stoneware with sgraffito design in slip under glaze (Cizhou ware)
Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.141

http://sites.asiasociety.org/asianjourneys/chinese-civil-strife-and-the-international-art-market/



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