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A PAINTED ‘CIZHOU’ JAR Usually painted with floral motifs, examples decorated with
SONG / JIN DYNASTY similar ‘cash’ patterns are exceptionally rare. An incised jar
of the same form and decoration but with the design in white
well-potted, of slightly compressed globular form rising on a dark brown ground, from the Linyushanren Collection, is
from a short spreading foot, the body deftly painted on the illustrated in several publications including Special Exhibition,
exterior with a wide, continuous band of interlaced ‘cash’ Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type
symbols in dark brown slip against an ivory-white ground, all Wares, The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 2002, cat.
beneath a lustrous transparent glaze stopping short of the no. 47, and was sold at Christie’s New York, 22nd March
base revealing the buff-colored stoneware body, the interior 2018, lot 508. For a vessel of the same form with dark brown
a plain creamy-white painted floral decoration, see an example excavated at the
Height 5⅝ in., 14.3 cm Guantai kiln, Hebei, illustrated in Guantai Cizhou yaozhi [The
Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai], Beijing, 1997, pl. XIV, no. 2.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer (1849-1918) and thence by $ 30,000-50,000
descent.
Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago by Bertha
Palmer Thorne (1911-1974) in 1973 (acc. no. 1973. 825). 宋 / 金 磁州窰白地黑花罐
LITERATURE
來源
Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Potter Palmer (1849-1918) 夫人收藏，此後家族傳承
Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., 1973年Bertha Palmer Thorne (1911-1974) 贈予芝加哥藝
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, p. 152, fig. 術博物館，芝加哥，館藏編號1973.825
173.
出版
《Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in
Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D.》
，印第安納波利斯美術館，印第安納波利斯，印第安
納州，1980年，頁152，圖173

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