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A RARE GREEN-GLAZED CIZHOU 北宋/金 磁州窯綠釉剔花牡丹紋瓶
SGRAFFIATO ‘PEONY’ VASE
來源
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY 歐洲私人珍藏，於1930年代購自日本東京日下尚雅堂，後於家族
中流傳
The well-balanced baluster body is supported on a high splayed foot 倫敦佳士得，2009年5月12日，拍品153號
and with a tall tapering neck ending on a wide rolled-out everted
rim, delicately carved and incised with two large peony blooms 磁州綠釉剔花瓶極為罕有，而在已知例子當中，幾乎全部都是綠地
borne on leafy stems, all above a band of overlapping petals at the 剔黑花品種，如本瓶般以白剔花襯托綠釉的作品目前所知只有一
base. 件，同樣飾牡丹紋，被收錄在1976年東京出版的《龍泉集芳》第一
集，圖版556號，被註冊為日本重要美術品（圖一），可見本拍品
11 in. (31 cm.) high 之稀有度及重要性。

HK$500,000-800,000US$65,000-100,000 另可參考數件磁州綠地黑花瓶，器形與紋飾與本瓶一樣，惟牡丹紋
為黑剔花，一件為臨宇山人珍藏，被註冊為日本重要美術品，2012
PROVENANCE 年展於香港佳士得《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，圖版52
Acquired by a European collector from Kusaka Shogado, Tokyo, in 號；另一件藏大和文華館，著錄於《龍泉集芳》第一集，圖版557
the 1930s and thence by descent 號；一件著錄於1977年東京出版《世界陶磁全集》，卷12，圖237
Sold at Christie’s London, 12 May 2009, lot 153 號；一件藏出光美術館，著錄於1986年東京出版《出光美術館藏
品図錄 – 中国陶磁》，圖版117號；一件藏瑞士鮑氏珍藏，見1968
Green-glazed Cizhou vases of this shape and decoration are 年日內瓦出版《The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics I》，圖版
extremely rare. Most known examples have the same peony A78號。
decoration rendered in black slip, while the current vase is carved
through white slip and covered with a translucent green glaze. 此器經CIRAM科技測試 (測試編號 0714-OA-207R)，證實與本圖錄
The only known other example also decorated with white peony 之定年符合。
motifs under a green glaze is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy
Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 556, registered as an Important Art
Object (fig. 1).

Other green-glazed Cizhou vases decorated with peony in black
slip include one in the Linyushanren Collection, exhibited in The
Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures
from the Linyushanren Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, 2012,
pl. 52; one from the Museum Yamoto Bunkakan, illustrated in
Mayuyama Seventy Years, op. cit., pl. 557; one illustrated in Sekai
toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, p. 242, fig. 237; one from the
Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics
in the Idemitsu Museum Collection, Tokyo, 1986, pl. 117; and one
in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in J. Ayers, The Baur
Collection, Chinese Ceramics I, Switzerland, 1968, pl. A78.

CIRAM Scientific Analysis Certificate no. 0714-OA-207R is
consistent with the dating of this lot.

fig. 1 Green-glazed Cizhou Sgraffiato Vase, registered as an Important
Art Object in Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976

（圖一）宋 磁州窯綠釉剔花瓶日本重要美術品

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