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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 716

A LARGE 'CIZHOU' WHITE - GLAZED SGRAFFIATO VASE, LIAO DYNASTY
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

A LARGE 'CIZHOU' WHITE-GLAZED SGRAFFIATO VASE
LIAO DYNASTY
遼 磁州窰白釉剔花葉紋盤口甁

the finely potted body of elegantly sinuous baluster form, the swelling shoulders rising to a slender elongated neck surmounted by
a flaring cupped mouth with galleried rim and supported on a chamfered splayed foot, the rounded sides deftly carved with a wide
frieze of scrolling leaves with delicately incised veining and frilled edges, set between a band of overlapping lotus petals and a
scallop-edged border, applied overall with a pearl-white slip beneath a lustrous colorless glaze, the foot left unglazed revealing the
buff body

Height 18⅞ in., 48 cm

Provenance
Christie's London, 6th June 1994, lot 102.
Bai Ma Xuan Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 21st-22nd September 2005, lot 31.

來源
倫敦佳士得1994年6月6日，編號102
白馬軒收藏
紐約蘇富比2005年9月21至22日，編號31

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