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129 The truncated meiping form of this vase was one that enjoyed a relatively
brief period of popularity in the Northern Song and Jin periods. An example
A PERSIMMON-GLAZED TRUNCATED MEIPING, TULU PING a of persimmon-glazed truncated meiping is in the collection of the Idemitsu
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279) Museum of Art, published in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, 1987, pl. 112. The same museum also has a black-glazed truncated
The vase is modelled with a faring neck above a broad, high-shouldered body meiping as well as a sgrafiato-decorated Ding ware version.
which tapers to the fat base. The surface, apart from the base, is covered with
a rich russet glaze with subtle metallic lustre. Similar examples sold at auction include Christie’s New York, 20 September
5º in. (13.3 cm.) diam. 2002, lot 293 and Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2011, lot 560.

£25,000-35,000 $32,000-44,000 This form is most common among ceramics in the Cizhou tradition, and
€29,000-40,000 examples with painted and incised designs are in the Kyusei Hakone Art
Museum, the Tokyo National Museum and the Sano Museum as illustrated
PROVENANCE in Y. Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern
China : Tz’u-chou Type Wares 960 - 1600 A.D., Indianapolis: 1981, pp. 198-9,
Acquired in Hong Kong in late 1970’s. pl. 87, fgs. 248 and 249 respectively.
The dating of the current lot is consistent with the results of Oxford
Authentication Thermoluminescent test No P114d19. 宋 醬釉吐魯瓶
來源：歐洲私人珍藏，於1970年代末購自香港
Persimmon glazed vessels appear to have been especially admired on vases
and tea ceremony wares. They were produced at several northern Chinese
kilns in the Song and early Jin periods, including the Ding and Yaozhou kilns.
The Gegu yaolun, published in AD 1388, notes that ‘purple’ (i.e. persimmon)
and black Ding were even more expensive than white Ding wares. See Sir
Percival David, Chinese Connoisseurship - The Ko Ku Yao Lun, London, 1971,
p. 141.

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