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850 A PAIR OF JIZHOU RESIST- 南宋 元ǭ十Ӳ 十四世紀ǭ
DECORATED ‘PRUNUS’ म州窯黑釉剪紙貼剔花梅紋≡一對
BOTTLE VASES
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY Ϝ源
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Each pear-shaped vase is covered in a dark brown glaze and is
decorated with two prunus sprigs in wax-resist technique with
painted details and branches carved through the glaze.
Each: 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, cloth box (2)
$25,000-35,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4620a-b.
For a similar vase of slightly more squat shape from the
Scheinman Collection, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell,
Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, no. 102, where the author
discusses the method of decoration on wares of this type, pp. 251-
2. Another similar Jizhou ‘prunus’ vase is illustrated by H. Tseng
and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine
Arts: Boston, Boston, 1972, no. 129. A further similar vase in the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is illustrated by J. Wirgin, ‘Sung
Ceramic Wares from Chi-Chou’ in the Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Art, Stockholm, No. 34, 1962, pl. 8b.

849 A JIAN ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEA BOWL 南宋ǭ建窯兔毫盞
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The conical bowl is covered overall with a thick, lustrous black Ϝ源
glaze finely streaked with silvery-brown 'hare's fur' markings, which 藍理捷
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thins to a matte russet-brown at the rim and pools in a line above
the foot.
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) diam., cloth box
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4850.
For a similar Jian tea bowl from the Havemeyer Collection,
now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, see S. Valenstein,
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 115,
no. 110. See, also, a slightly larger Jian tea bowl from the Falk
Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell,
and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 217-18, no. 81, and
subsequently sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2001,
lot 91.

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