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A RARE QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE CARVED MEIPING with a height of 26 cm. in the Sichuan Chongqing Museum, the other with
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) a height of 35.1 cm. in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, are illustrated in
Zhongguo taoci quanji: Song Yuan qingbai ci, vol. 16, Kyoto, 1984, pls. 20 and
The tall, high-shouldered, tapering body is carved with a broad band of
scrolling tendrils between double line borders, all under a crackled glaze of 101. Another example with broader shoulders, registered as an Important
pale aquamarine tone that continues over the short neck and molded rim and Art Object in Japan, is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo,
ends just above the foot to expose the fine ware. 1976, pl. 450. An example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New
York, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.
10Ω in. (26.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box 11, New York, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 59. A slightly smaller example (28.6 cm. high)
in the Idemitsu Collection is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
$100,000-150,000 Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 423. One is in the Meiyintang Collection, see R.
Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, p.
PROVENANCE: 325, no. 606. Another vessel that is very close to the current vase, but with a
Acquired in Taipei in the 1980s. cover that flares out at the lower edge, is in the Chang Foundation, Taipei and
Chinese Ceramics from the Yangdetang Collection; Christie's Hong Kong, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang
30 November 2016, lot 3140.
Foundation, Taipei, 1990, pp. 154-5, no. 58.
LITERATURE:
Tan Danjiong, History of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Taipei, 1985, p. 477. (One of two) A larger vase was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot
3231. A similarly carved meiping with broader shoulders is illustrated in
Sekai toji zenshu: Song, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 30; and another is illustrated
The shape and decorations on qingbai wares were often fashioned after
contemporaneous silver wares, and the current meiping is no exception. in Mayuyama Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 417. Compare, also, the almost
A silver meiping carved with ruyi-shaped scrolls, excavated in a Southern identical vase, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 2830.
Song hoard in Sichuan, for example, was possibly an inspiration for the
design of the current vase. The silver vase is illustrated in S. Kwan, 'Tixi
wenyang fenqi chuyi', Proceedings of Conference on Ancient Chinese 南宋 青白釉仿剔犀刻花梅瓶
Lacquer, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 65, fig. 11. 來源:
1980年代購於臺北
Qingbai vases of similar shape and design are in the collection of important
museums and institutions. An almost identical example in the Qing 養德堂珍藏中國古陶瓷, 香港佳士得, 2016年11月30日, 拍品編號3140
Court Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete 出版:
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty 譚旦冏, 《中國陶瓷史》, 下冊, 臺北, 1985年, 頁477〈之一〉
(II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 167. Two other examples of varying sizes, one

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