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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION
A ‘CIZHOU’ SGRAFFIATO BLACK-
GLAZED BOTTLE VASE, YUHUCHUN
PING
SONG / JIN DYNASTY
the pear-shaped body supported on a
spreading foot and rising to a waisted neck and
flared rim, covered overall in white slip overlaid
with a brilliant brownish-black glaze, the central
band around the body with the glaze cut away
to reveal reserve-decorated leafy floral sprays,
between similarly carved bands of foliate scroll,
the recessed foot unglazed
30.2 cm, 11⅞ in.
‡ £ 15,000-20,000
HK$ 154,000-206,000 US$ 19,700-26,200
宋/金 磁州窰黑釉剔折枝花卉紋
玉壺春瓶

Elegantly modelled with a gently flaring neck,
this vase is notable for its bold and fluidly
carved motif of large blooms and curling leaves,
set between two bands of delicately incised
leafy scrolls. It is a particularly unusual example
as the motif is carved against the buff-coloured
body.
Vases of this type, but with the white slip,
are known carved with a wide variety of floral
motifs; compare a vase with a lotus flower on
the central band, attributed to the Xixia Dynasty
(1038-1227), from the Hong Rui Tang collection,
th
sold in these rooms, 12 December 1989, lot
250; one with a peony scroll, in the Meiyintang
collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3
(II), London, 2006, pl. 1526; another with a lotus
scroll, in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Arts,
included in the Museum’s exhibition Charm of
Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type
Wares, Osaka, 2002, cat. no. 147; and a fourth
vase with lotus sprays within cartouches, in
the Ehime Bunkakan, Imabari, illustrated in
Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1,
pl. 596.

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