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130 The persimmon glaze was produced at several northern kilns in the Song
dynasty, the two most famous being the Ding and Yaozhou kilns. It was
A PERSIMMON-GLAZED MEIPING highly admired for the attractive lustrous sheen and rich tone of its glaze.
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279) Persimmon-glazed meiping are rare and only a few comparable examples
are known. A similar example can be found in the Harvard University Art
The elegant tapering vase is modelled with high shoulders and a slender short Museums, illustrated by R. D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge
neck with an everted rim. The vase is covered with a rich brown glaze with a Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge,
fne iridescent lustre which stops slightly short of the unglazed foot. Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 123-124, no. 24. A similar shorter vase is in the
12æ in. (32.5 cm.) high National Museum of Korea, Seoul, and is illustrated by Gakuji Hasebe, Sekai
Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 123.
£40,000-60,000 $51,000-75,000
€47,000-69,000 Two shorter, more globular examples have been sold at Christie’s, one which
was formerly in the collection of Sir Herbert Ingram (1875- 1958), was sold
PROVENANCE at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2014, lot. 3323, and the other which was
formerly in the Ataka collection and then sold with the The Linyushanren
Acquired in Hong Kong in the late 1970’s, by repute, formerly from a private Collection in Christie’s New York, 15 September 2016, lot 713.
Japanese collection.
The dating of the current lot is consistent with the results of Oxford 宋 醬釉梅瓶
Authentication Thermoluminescent test No P114d17. 來源：歐洲私人珍藏，於1970年代購自香港，據傳為日本私人舊藏

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