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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION The combination on this vase of freely painted floral blooms
A FINE AND LARGE ‘CIZHOU’ PAINTED AND on the shoulders and the carefully incised “cash” pattern and
SGRAFFIATO MEIPING stamped “fish-roe” is very unusual. While no other closely
related example appears to have been published, a meiping
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY that similarly combines painted blooms on the shoulders and
the slender tapering baluster body rising from a recessed above the foot, with incised characters on the body, in the
base to broad shoulders ending in a narrow neck with Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, was included in the Muse-
tapering conical mouth, covered overall in an ivory-white um’s exhibition Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of
slip, incised around the body with a band of interlinked cash Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka, 2002, cat. no. 79; another in the
motifs against a fish-roe ground above a band of incised Art Institute of Chicago, was included in the exhibition Free-
upright trefoils, the shoulders boldly painted with large dark dom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern
brown floral blooms under the glaze China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis
37.5 cm, 14¾ in. Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, cat. no. 72, illustrated to-
gether with a meiping in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fig.
PROVENANCE 187; and a fourth vase from the collection of Mr Nishimura,
th
Manno Art Museum, Osaka. was sold in our New York rooms, 19 March 2007, lot 126.
LITERATURE Compare also a meiping of similar slender form and carved
with the “cash” pattern, but also with a classic scroll on the
Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven shoulders, from the collection of Samuel C. Davis, now in
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960- the St. Louis Art Museum, included ibid., cat. no. 27; another
1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1981, fig. 61.
in the Tokyo National Museum, published in the Illustrated
Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics I,
‡ £ 30,000-40,000
HK$ 308,000-411,000 US$ 39,300-52,500 Tokyo, 1988, pl. 556; and a fragment of a meiping recovered
at the Dengfeng kilns in Henan province, illustrated in Li Jing-
北宋 磁州窰劃花褐彩花卉紋梅瓶 zhou and Liu Aiye, Zhongguo Dengfeng yao [Dengfeng kilns of
China], Beijing, 2011, p. 94 (lower right).
來源
萬野美術館，大阪
出版
蓑豊,《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, 1981年, 第78頁, 圖
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