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A Cizhou slip-decorated ewer
Song Dynasty
Raised on a short footrim, the oviform body
carved through the creamy-white slip with a
carved peony meander, the flaring trumpet
neck flanked with a strap handle, two smaller
loop handles and a tall curved spout.
19.8cm (7 3/4in) high

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,700 - 12,000 HK$9,600 - 14,000

For a similar Cizhou ewer, 11th century, see J. 251
Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Design, London 1979,
pl.43i. Also compare the shape and strapwork
arrangement with a Yaozhou ewer, 11th-12th
century, illustrated in H. Li, Chinese Ceramics,
London 2011, p.155 no.257. Also compare
the white and olive-brown slip on the present
lot with a Cizhou pear-shaped vase sold in our
New Bond Street salerooms, 15 May 2015,
lot 8.

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A Qingbai foliate-rimmed dish
Song to Yuan Dynasty
The interior carved with stylised bird roundels,
the rim with eight lobes, the shallow conical
bowl raised on a short footrim, all covered in a
straw-coloured qingbai glaze.
17.1cm (6 3/4in) diam.

£600 - 800 252
CNY5,800 - 7,700 HK$7,200 - 9,600

Provenance
Acquired in Singapore during the 1940’s, and
thence by descent.

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A Henan russet-splashed bowl
Song-Yuan Dynasty
The shallow bowl covered in a thick black
glaze, the interior with five iron splashes, the
grey biscuit visible at the footrim; together
with a qingbai bowl, Yuan Dynasty, and a Thai
Sawankhalok brown-glazed bottle, 14th-16th
century.
18cm (7 1/8in) diam. (3).

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,700 - 12,000 HK$9,600 - 14,000

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