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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION
A RARE ‘JIZHOU’ ‘PLUM BLOSSOM DEER’ MEIPING
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
the elegantly potted tapering body rising to broad rounded
shoulders, sweeping up to a short neck with everted rim,
finely decorated with a buff-tone glaze on a dark brown
ground with concentric rows of resist technique discs
mimicking the markings on the Sika deer, save for the knife-
pared footring unglazed revealing the buff body, the neck
with a key-fret band below buff-coloured dots on the rim, the
base covered with a dark brown matte glaze
21.5 cm, 8½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 12th June 1984, lot 197.
Sotheby’s London, 9th November 2005, lot 225.
Sotheby’s New York, 11th-12th September 2012, lot 127.
‡ £ 200,000-300,000
HK$ 2,060,000-3,080,000 US$ 262,000-393,000
南宋 吉州窰梅花鹿紋梅瓶

來源
紐約蘇富比1984年6月12日，編號197
倫敦蘇富比2005年11月9日，編號225
紐約蘇富比2012年9月11至12日，編號127

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