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A RARE BLACK-GLAZED VASE
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY
the globular body rising from a high splayed foot
to a tall ringed neck # aring to a # oret rim with
! ve downturned edges, covered overall with a
lustrous black glaze, save for the hollow base left
unglazed to reveal the bu< -colored stoneware
body
Height 10¾ in., 27.4 cm
PROVENANCE
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1989.
Compare a related black-glazed vase of similar
shape but larger in size, sold in these rooms, 4th
June 1986, lot 84; and another of a smaller size,
with a plain neck and vertical ribs around the
body, sold in our London rooms, 18th June 1985,
lot 52.
Vases of this shape also exist in other types of
wares. For example, see a Cizhou painted vase,
sold in our London rooms, 9th December 1986,
lot 97; a Jin dynasty sancai-glazed vase, in the
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, included in
Special Exhibition. Charm of Black & White Ware;
Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002, cat. no. 114; and
lastly, a massive sgra! ato vase, with a pair of
handles to the ringed neck and an inscription to
the splayed foot, illustrated in Anthony du Boulay,
Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics,
Oxford, 1984, pl. 7.
$ 15,000-20,000
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