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A FINE HENAN BLACK-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE,
YUHUCHUN PING
Jin Dynasty
Of broad pear shape rising from a low foot to a waisted neck and
flared rim, covered overall with a lustrous brownish-black glaze
speckled with rust-brown and two stylised birds in flight boldly painted
in caramel-brown.
28cm (11in) high

£10,000 - 12,000 CNY92,000 - 110,000
HK$110,000 - 130,000

金 黑釉鐵銹斑玉壺春瓶

Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the
Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Dennis Haworth Collection
Acquired from Dennis Haworth by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London,
25 May 1949
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 29 June 1949
The Cunfliffe Collection, no.ZC10, and thence by descent

Exhibited and Published:
Manchester City Art Gallery, Chinese Art Exhibition, Manchester,
3 April - 16 May 1936, no. 245
Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Ting, Ying Ch’ing and
Tz’u Chou, London, 9 November - 17 December 1949, no.151

來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵
(1899-1963)
於1949年6月29日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號ZC10，並由後人保存迄今

展覽及出版：
1936年4月3日至5月16日於曼徹斯特市立藝廊「Chinese Art
Exhibition(中國藝術)」特展展出，展品245號
1949年11月9日至12月17日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Sung Dynasty
Wares: Ting, Ying Ch’ing and Tz’u Chou(宋代器物：定窯、影青及磁
州陶瓷) 」特展展出，展品151號

A similar brown painted pear-shaped vase in the British Museum is
illustrated by M.Medley, Yuan Porcelain & Stoneware, London, 1973,
pl.109a. Compare also with a related pear-shaped bottle vase with
decorations of stylised birds in flight, illustrated by R.D.Mowry, Hare’s
Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black
Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996,
pp.159-161, no.52. For a further example of similar decoration of birds
in flight from the Jin Dynasty, but on a globular jar, see Heaven and
Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection,
New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, pp.110-111, no.40.

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