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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
2315
A SMALL DINGYAO CARVED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

The bowl has deep, rounded sides and is
carved in the interior with a single blossom
borne on a leafy stem, and is covered overall
below the unglazed rim with a glaze of ivory
tone that pools in tears of greyish-olive tone
on the exterior.
3√ in. (9.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$10,000-15,000

北宋 定窯白釉刻花卉紋小盌

2316
A CIZHOU-TYPE BLACKISH-BROWN-
GLAZED BOWL WITH WHITE RIM
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

The rounded conical bowl is covered inside
and out with a blackish-brown glaze below
the everted rim covered in a white slip under
a clear glaze.
4¬ in. (11.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$6,000-8,000

北宋 磁州系黑釉盌

2317
A CIZHOU-TYPE CUT-GLAZE PEAR-SHAPED
BOTTLE, YUHUCHUNPING
XIXIA OR JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH
CENTURY

The body is carved through the brown glaze
to a white slip with a broad band of leaf
scroll below bands of key fret and further leaf
scroll on the shoulder, all within line borders
below the brown-glazed, waisted neck and
fared mouth.
11æ in. (30 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$12,000-18,000

Compare the cut-glaze bottle of this shape
carved with related decoration, in the collection
of the Saint Louis Art Museum, illustrated by R.
Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge
Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed
Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art
Museums, 1995, pp. 189-90, no. 68, which is
dated Xixia kingdom or Jin to Yuan, 13th-14th
century.

西夏或金/元
磁州系剔花卷草紋玉壺春瓶

2317

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