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731 A PAINTED CIZHOU JAR 藝臻期頤-MARCHANT珍藏中國藝術品

YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY (another view)

The jar has a tapering, broad-shouldered body is decorated in
brownish-black on a cream slip with three lobed panels, one
containing a fgure of a scholar, another containing a crane and
another a lotus, all between wavy line borders at the shoulder, neck
and foot. The rim and the interior are covered with a brown glaze.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s London, 11 and 13 June, 1990, lot 81.

A similar Cizhou jar decorated with an almost identical fgure
of a robed scholar in a cartouche is in the Freer Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s
Great Collections, Vol. 9, Tokyo, 1981, no. 84. Another similar jar is
illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
New York, 1989, p. 144, no. 139, and a further example is
illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, 1976, p. 217,
no. 658, and subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 17 March
2017, lot 1174.

元十四世紀 磁州窯白地黑花開光花鳥人物圖罐

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