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1743 (two views)

ANOTHER PROPERTY
1743
A JIZHOU PAPER-CUT-DECORATED TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The rounded conical body is resist-decorated on the interior with three
quatrefoil motifs, all reserved in dark brown against the variegated, milky buf
ground, and the exterior is covered in a ‘tortoiseshell’ glaze of dark brown color
mottled in beige that falls irregularly to the foot.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan.
南宋 吉州窯剪紙貼花玳瑁盌

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA
1744
AN UNUSUAL MOLDED QINGBAI VASE
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
Of baluster form, the ovoid body is molded with two bands of foral sprays,
and is surmounted by a tall neck encircled by a bow-string band below the
out-curved, petal-lobed mouth rim. The vase is covered with an even, pale blue
glaze which pools slightly in the recesses, and the base is unglazed.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
William Clayton, London, by 1962.
LITERATURE
Advertised: Oriental Art, Winter 1962, Vol. VIII, no. 4.
A qingbai vase of similar form, also with molded foral design, but of slightly
smaller size (14.4 cm. high), in the Kwan Collection, is illustrated in Song
Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 274-75, no. 119.
1744
南宋 青白釉花口瓶
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