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A VERY RARE SMALL JIZHOU RESERVE-DECORATED A FINE AND VERY RARE JIZHOU RESIST-DECORATED
‘ELEPHANT’ JAR ‘DOUBLE PHOENIX’ BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING
Southern Song Dynasty Southern Song Dynasty
The high shoulder rising to a delicately everted rim, flanked by a pair The baluster body raising to a high shoulder, short tapering neck and
of small loop handles, the body painted on each side with a standing lipped rim, resist-decorated to the exterior with two pairs of confronted
tusked elephant reserved on a ground of dark-brown wash, fitted box. phoenix detailed with long feathered tail and plumage, separated by
9.5cm (3 3/4in) high. (2). billowing clouds, reserved on a dark brown glaze, fitted box.
28.5cm (11 1/4in) high (2).
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000 £6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000
南宋 吉州窯黑釉剔瑞象小瓶
南宋 吉州窯黑釉剔鳳凰紋梅瓶
Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong
circa 1980s-1990s 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
來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港

Compare a very similar Jizhou resist-decorated vase, meiping,
Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century, in the Arthur M.
Sackler Museum, similarly glazed dark-brown and resist-decorated
with a pair of phoenix, illustrated by R.Mowry Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell,
and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics,
400-1400, Harvard, 1996, pp.253-255, no.103.

A related Cizhou resist-decorated and carved brown-glazed vase,
meiping, Southern Song dynasty, of similar form but decorated with
prunus branches, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 April 2017, lot 109.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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