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A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISE-SHELL’-GLAZED VASE, MEIPING
Southern Song Dynasty
The slender ovoid body rising from a recessed base with a slanting
footring, surmounted by a short neck and everted lipped rim, applied
to the exterior and base with a chocolate-brown glaze suffused with
buff and sandy-brown splashes in imitation of tortoiseshell, the interior
and footring left unglazed, box.
21cm (8 1/4in) high. (2).
HKD900,000 - 1,200,000
US$110,000 - 150,000
南宋 吉州窯玳瑁釉梅瓶
Provenance:
Acquired from Fujiwhara Jyukodo, Osaka, 2015
來源:
2015年購於大阪藤原集古堂
Image courtesy of Palace Museum, Beijing
北京故宮博物院藏
See a related example of Northern Song black-glazed meiping 瓶圓口翻唇，短頸，圓肩，腹微鼓而下收，底部上收成圈足，通施褐
vase excavated in Shaanxi, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji 釉，色彩斑斕如玳瑁。
[Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China], Beijing,
2008, pl.116; a Song dynasty Jizhou amber ware meiping vase with 此瓶口部較侈，應原有酒封，參考一件陝西出土之北宋黑釉梅瓶，
similar glaze but of lighter shade and smaller mouth in the Palace 其開口與本件類似較闊，上存留粗陶酒封，見《中國出土瓷器》，
Museum is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of 北京，2008年，編號116。北京故宮藏一件宋代吉州窯瑪瑙釉梅瓶，
the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 其釉色與本件頗似，惟色偏淡，小口，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品
1996, p.235, pl.216; compare also with a Southern Song Jizhou ware 全集·兩宋瓷器》，香港，1996年，卷下，頁235，編號216。紐
meiping in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, included in the exhibition, 約大都會博物館藏一件南宋吉州梅瓶亦資參考，見大都會博物館展
Studies in Global Ceramic History, New York, 2015. 覽， 《Studies in Global Ceramic History》（全球陶瓷史研究），紐
約，2015年。
梅瓶之稱最早出現在南宋，當時只是泛指可插梅花之瓶，多出現在詩
詞中。南宋許綸有「摩挱玉梅瓶，凍合西湖水」，方逢振作「石几梅
瓶添水活，地爐茶鼎煮泉新」之句，至明末清初，文人及宮廷檔案將
此類窄口豐肩收腹之瓶開始正式稱為梅瓶。今日所見宋代梅瓶，於當
時則通稱為酒瓶或經瓶，相關討論見陸鵬亮，《梅瓶名謂考》，載於
《上海博物館集刊》，上海，2005年，頁228-235。
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