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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE COLLECTION 高麗王朝十二世紀 青釉繪雲鶴紋梅瓶
A RARE KOREAN SLIP-PAINTED CELADON
MEIPING This elegant meiping (maebyong in Korean) is a rare example
KORYO DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY from the early Koryo period. The delicate design of cranes and
clouds was painted directly onto the body in liquid white slip
the tapering body rising to high round shoulders and before the clear green glaze was applied. This type of freehand
surmounted by a short waisted neck with galleried rim, decoration is more difficult to control than the more formal,
decorated in black and white slip with three cranes flying inlaid decoration of the mature Koryo period, but is effective in
amidst stylised clouds, all below a collar of leafy lappets, endowing the design with an element of abstraction. A closely
covered overall save for the footring in a sea-green glaze, related 12th century meiping, similarly slip-decorated with
Japanese wood box a design of clouds, is in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Gift of
30.5 cm, 12 in. Antoinette M. Kraushaar, no. 76.43.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,800-38,700

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PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION 新石器時代紅山文化 青白玉三聯璧
A CELADON JADE THREE-HOLE PLAQUE
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, HONGSHAN CULTURE 出版：
姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁24-25
pierced with three perforations of increasing sizes with the
outline corresponding in form, the pale celadon stone with light
russet inclusions 此類聯璧，初作雙孔，相信始見於新開流文化（公元
8.8 cm, 3½ in. 前約5300-4800年），東北地區爾後續製，如紅山文化
便有相類聯璧。參見一遼寧省阜新縣胡頭溝村出土紅
LITERATURE 山三聯璧，上沿也有繫溝，圖見《中國玉器全集》，
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, 卷1：原始社會，石家莊，1991年，圖版7。
Beijing, 2006, pp. 24-25.
HK$ 80,000-100,000
US$ 10,400-12,900
This type of jade plaque, initially modelled with only two
perforations, is believed to originate from the Xinkailiu culture
(c. 5300-4800 BC) and continued to be produced in subsequent
Northeast prehistoric sites including those of Hongshan culture.
A closely related but slightly smaller Hongshan jade plaque
(height 6.4 cm) was excavated from Fuxin, Liaoning (Zhongguo
yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 1:
Yuanshi shehui [Primitive society], Hebei, 1991, pl. 7). Similar to
the present lot, it was probably suspended by a string, resulting
in an indentation on the narrower side.