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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1099
A CIZHOU BROWN-PAINTED MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The vase is fluidly painted in brown slip on a white slip ground on
both sides with a leafy peony stem, all under a clear glaze.
15¿ in. (38.2 cm.) high, softwood box
$18,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's New York, 19 September 2006, lot 221.

Cizhou painted meiping of this type are particularly highly prized,
and examples can be found in many famous collections. A very
similar vase in the Indianapolis Museum of Art is illustrated by
Y. Mino and J. Robinson in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly
Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, p. 195, pl. 71.

重要私人珍藏
北宋/金 十二至十三世紀 磁州白地褐彩牡丹紋梅瓶
來源:
紐約佳士得, 2006年9月19日, 拍品編號221

ANOTHER PROPERTY
1100
A LARGE BLACK-GLAZED WHITE-RIBBED JAR WITH
TWO HANDLES
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Set on the shoulder with two handles each molded with the
character Zhang within a square, the swelling jar rises to a short
neck and lipped rim and is decorated with alternating groups of
two and four ribs in raised white slip, all covered under a lustrous
blackish-amber glaze.
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$18,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:
Kochukyo, Tokyo, April 2014.
Kaikodo, New York.
1100
EXHIBITED:
New York, Kaikodo, 2015.
LITERATURE:
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2015, no. 11. Dark-glazed jars of this type, decorated with vertical ribs of trailed
white slip, were produced in various sizes and shapes at a number
金 十二至十三世紀 黑釉棱綫紋雙耳罐 of Cizhou kiln sites in Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces. What
來源: sets this handsome jar apart, however, is the unusual appearance
of the single character, Zhang, molded on each of the handles.
壺中居, 東京, 2014年4月
Excavations at Guantai, a major Cizhou kiln center in modern Cixian,
懷古堂, 紐約 Hebei province, have yielded a sherd, a handle similar those on the
present jar, which also bears a molded Zhang character. See Guantai
展覽:
Cizhou yaozhi, Beijing, 1997, pl. LIV:1 (left). Also illustrated, pl. XXV:1,
紐約, 懷古堂, 2015年 is a reconstructed jar from the site which has similar vertical ribs
出版: and is of similar proportions to the present jar. The character Zhang
impressed on the handles of these jars is likely a reference to the
《懷古堂》期刊, 紐約, 2015年春季刊, 編號11
celebrated Zhang Family of potters famed for producing pillows in
the vicinity of Cizhou in Hebei province. The inclusion of this name
on this jar suggests the family was involved in the production of
other wares as well.

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