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A CIZHOU-TYPE CREAM-GLAZED VASE
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NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
A CIZHOU-TYPE CREAM-GLAZED CENSER
The vase has a tapering globular body and trumpet-form neck, and is
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY covered with a white slip under a transparent glaze, which is crackled
in areas, and ends inside the neck and around the fared foot.
The cylindrical cup is raised on a waisted stem rising from a spreading 9º in. (23.5 cm.) high
pedestal foot and surmounted by a slightly curved, wide everted rim, $3,000-5,000
the whole is covered with a white slip and clear glaze that continues
over the raised mouth rim and the interior is left unglazed. PROVENANCE
5¿ in. (13 cm.) wide
Edward G. Kennedy (1849-1932) Collection.
$1,500-2,500 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1921.
A similar vase, but of larger size (30.5 cm. high), in the
PROVENANCE Linyushanren Collection, but with the glaze stopping slightly short
of the foot, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Classic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1925 Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the
(Fletcher Fund). Linyushanren Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, 22-27 November
2012, p. 122, no. 48.
Cizhou-type vessels of this shape are believed to have evolved from 北宋 磁州窯白釉卷口瓶
metal prototypes. Although no metal vessel appears to have survived 來源
in China, bronze vessels of this type, but of slightly different shape, Edward G. Kennedy（1849-1932）珍藏。
have been preserved in Korea, an example of which is illustrated by 紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1921年。
Y. Mino and K.R. Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., 809
Indianapolis, 1981, p. 72, fg. 55.

A very similar censer is illustrated in the catalogue of the Memorial
Exhibition of The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, 13 February-30 March
1952, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, p. 70, no. 277. See, also, the
example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang
Collection, vol. l, London, 1994, pp. 260-1, no. 476, where it is
linked to Juluxian, because of its smooth, creamy surface.

北宋 磁州窯白釉行爐

來源
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1925年 (Fletcher 基金)。

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