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A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO COMPRESSED ٫宋ǎ⌘州⒋白ঃץ➁枝花卉紋➬
GLOBULAR JAR
Ϝ源
NOTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
❤山龍泉ਕ
東̺
至 年代
秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
The deep, rounded sides are carved through an ivory-toned slip to the pale grey
ground with a broad band of leafy floral scroll, between lappet borders, all under
a clear glaze.
6º in. (15.9 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Mayuyama, Tokyo, 1970s-80s.
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

A Cizhou jar of comparable size, but of slightly more compressed form and
carved through an ivory-toned slip to a pale grey ground with a wide band of
leafy floral scroll, is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 326-7, no. 145, where it is dated late
Northern Song. On the Kwan jar, a band of diagonal, overlapping petals is carved
on the shoulder while a similar band appears on the lower body of the current
jar. A larger (20 cm. high) Northern Song rounded jar carved with stylized peony
scroll through a white slip ground, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, is illustrated
in Sung Ceramics, Tokyo, 1979, mo. 93.

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