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A ‘CIZHOU’ SGRAFFIATO ‘FLORAL’ OVOID VASE A ‘HUOZHOU’ ‘FISH’-HANDLED CUP
JIN DYNASTY YUAN DYNASTY
the finely potted spherical body resting on a splayed foot and the circular bowl with rounded sides supported by a short
rising to a waisted neck with a lipped rim, the broad register splayed foot, a flat barbed handle projecting from one side
around the sides carved through the creamy-white slip to of the rim, the top surface of the handle molded with a scaly
the brown-colored body leaving a reserve pattern of white fish in profile flanked by a floral spray on each side, the
blossoms borne on leafy scrolls, all beneath a translucent vessel covered with a creamy ivory glaze save for the base,
milky glaze revealing the pale buff body
Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm Width 4⅛ in., 10.3 cm
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Acquired prior to 2000. Acquired prior to 2000.
Huozhou wares, distinguished by their fine white clay and
$ 6,000-8,000
smooth creamy glazes, came into prominence during
the Yuan dynasty. See two closely related vessels in the
金 磁州窰白釉剔花罐 Meiyingtang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London,
來源： 1994, cat no. 510, and another sold in our London rooms, 7th
得於2000年之前 June 1994, lot 228.
$ 4,000-6,000

元 霍州窰白釉印魚紋單柄洗
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186 來源：
A RARE WHITE-GLAZED FLASK 得於2000年之前
LIAO DYNASTY
the walls tapering from the circular base to meet in a
horizontal seam at the top accented with a bracket-lobed
flange flanking the tubular lipped spout, the flange incised
around its borders and pierced with a circular aperture, the
narrow sides of the flask modeled with thin vertical bands of
clay evoking seams or gussets, all under a translucent ivory-
tinged glaze, the base unglazed revealing the buff body 189
Height 10¼ in., 26 cm
A ‘DING’ BOWL AND COVER
PROVENANCE NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY
Acquired prior to 2000. the deep, slightly incurved walls supported on a short
Liao pottery and stoneware flasks of this type were modeled straight foot, below a flat domed cover with a sloping everted
after leather flasks used by the Khitans. This example is rim and belt buckle-form finial, both covered in an ivory-
notable for its angular shape, elaborate barbed handle, white glaze pooling in characteristic teardrops along the
pure white glaze, and fine clay. A similar example has been lower reaches of the jar, the base unglazed and inscribed
excavated from a Liao royal tomb datable to 959 in Chifeng, with a yue character (2)
Inner Mongolia; see Liu Tao, Song Liao Jin jinian ciqi / Dated Height 5 in., 12.7 cm
Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin periods, Beijing, 2004,
p. 68, fig. 4-7, and col. pl. 25. Another flask of this design PROVENANCE
with molded raised borders, was formerly in the Idemitsu Acquired prior to 2000.
Museum of Arts, Tokyo, and sold in our London rooms, 11th
May 2011, lot 8, and again at Christie’s New York, 21st March $ 10,000-15,000
2019, lot 1736.
Compare variations of this vessel, also white-glazed but 北宋 / 金 定窰白釉蓋盌
with simpler bracketed handles. One of similar shape to
the present but raised on a splayed foot is illustrated in 盌底墨字：
Ceramics of Liao Dynasty, Formerly the Hayashibara Museum 岳
Collection, T. Edo Inouye & Son, Tokyo, 2012, cat. no. 27. See
also two examples with rounded sides: the first is illustrated 來源：
in Mino Yutaka, Hakuji [White Porcelain], vol. 5, Tokyo, 1998, 得於2000年之前
pl. 30, and the second sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1st-2nd
June 2017, lot 422.
$ 20,000-30,000 189

遼 白釉皮囊壺
187 來源：
得於2000年之前

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