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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION Notable for its abstract splash design over a lustrous black
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED JAR AND glaze, jars of this type, with a sturdy ovoid body and broad
COVER straight neck enlivened by two tubular handles, were popular
in the Song dynasty and made at various kilns in northern
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY China. Black-glazed jars decorated with irregular russet
the ovoid body rising from a short foot to a slightly tapered splashes are discussed by Robert D. Mowry in the catalogue
neck, flanked by a pair of lug handles, covered overall in a to the exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge
lustrous black glaze stopping irregularly around the base, Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1995,
accentuated with russet splashes, the domed cover with a p. 146, where he notes that vessels of this type, left unglazed
flat rim surmounted by a button finial, similarly decorated above the foot, have been recovered at the Cicun kilns, near
(2) Zibo in Shandong province, while those with a thin layer of
15.5 cm, 6¼ in. brown glaze covering the lowest part, are more commonly
associated with kilns in Henan and Hebei province.
PROVENANCE
A splashed jar of similar form but of slightly smaller size
The private collection of a Japanese physician (b. 1925). in the Meiyintang collection, is published in Regina Krahl,
Collection of Umezawa Hikotaro, Tokyo. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London,
Kochukyo, Tokyo, circa 1975. 1994, vol. I, pl. 463; another was included in the exhibition
Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th November 2013, lot 3285.
Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik aus Privatbesitz,
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1974, cat. no. 55;
‡ £ 60,000-80,000
HK$ 620,000-825,000 US$ 79,000-105,000 and a third is published in Fujiō Kōyama, Tōji taikei: Temmoku
[Outlines of ceramics: Temmoku], vol. 38, Tokyo, 1974, pl.
北宋 黑釉褐斑雙繫蓋罐 64. A further jar of this type but of slightly smaller size, from
th
the Malcolm collection, was sold in these rooms, 29 March
來源 1977, lot 161; and from the collection of Philip Kappel was sold
日本醫師收藏（生於1925年） in our New York rooms, 4th June 1982, lot 155.
梅澤彥太郎收藏，東京 Traditionally referred to as guan, shuang’er guan (“double-
壺中居，東京，購自1975年 eared jar”) or gualeng guan (“melon jar”), this form is known
香港佳士得2013年11月27日，編號3285 in a variety of sizes, with or without russet splashes.

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