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A RARE JIZHOU 'GURI'-STYLE VASE, MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
The vase is modelled with an elegant tapering body supporting high shoulders, Compare the present lot with a vase in the Tokyo National Museum,
a waisted neck, and a faring rim. The exterior is decorated with an allover published in Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of
design of alternating scroll-flled heart-shaped 'guri' pattern, executed in a Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1976, p. 160, no. 120, and one with a truncated
variegated golden opalescent glaze against the matt, dark brown glaze ending form excavated from a Southern Song tomb in Zhangshu city, Jiangxi
at the foot. The top of the mouth rim is decorated with a striped design. province, illustrated in the Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), Beijing, 2008, vol. 14: Jiangxi, p. 86.
£50,000-80,000 US$66,000-100,000 See a further meiping from the Linyushanren collection exhibited in The
€59,000-93,000 Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics, An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the
Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, New York, London, 22 November 2012
– 14 May 2013, pp. 112-113, no. 43 and subsequently sold at Christie's Hong
宋 吉州窯仿剔犀如意雲紋瓶 Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 2825. A similar vase was also sold at Sotheby’s
New York, 16 September 2014, lot 103.

來源: 歐洲私人珍藏

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