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A FINE AND RARE CIZHOU CARVED PEAR-SHAPED VASE,
YUHUCHUNPING
Jin Dynasty
The globular body supported on a short foot elegantly tapered to
a slender waisted neck and flaring rim, the exterior covered with a
lustrous and attractive dark brown glaze, carved with a wide register of
scrolling meander issuing large acanthus leaves, below another similar
floral band against the unglazed buff-colour biscuit, fitted box.
27.5cm (10 7/8in) high (2).

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY89,000 - 130,000

金 磁州窯黑釉剔纏枝花卉紋玉壺春瓶

Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong
circa 1980s-1990s

來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港

Compare a similar Cizhou carved pear-shaped vase, Yuhuchunping,
Jin/Yuan dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.523. Another related Cizhou carved pear-
shaped vase, 13th-14th century, in the Saint Louis Art Museum,
is illustrated by R.Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge
Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400,
Harvard, 1996, pp.189-191, no.68.

A similar Cizhou carved bottle vase, Yuhuchunping, Jin dynasty, was
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3284.

The result of C-Link Research & Development Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no.6380AM20 dated 17 December 2012,
is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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