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875 A CARVED QINGBAI TIXI-STYLE 南宋ǭ十Ӳ世紀ǭ青白釉劃卷草紋梅≡
VASE, MEIPING
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The tall, high-shouldered vase is carved overall with scrolling
tendrils between double line borders, all under a crackled glaze of
pale aquamarine tone that continues over the mouth and ends just
above the foot.
10¬ in. (27 cm.) high, brocade box
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4630.

The shape and decoration on qingbai wares were often fashioned vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 450. An example in the collection of The
after contemporaneous silver wares, and the current meiping Metropolitan Museum, New York, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics,
is no exception. A silver meiping decorated with ruyi-shaped The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, New York, Tokyo, 1982,
scrolls, excavated in a Southern Song hoard in Sichuan, for pl. 59. A slightly larger example (28.6 cm. high) in the Idemitsu
example, was possibly an inspiration for the design of the Collection is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
current vase. The silver vase is illustrated in S. Kwan, 'Tixi Tokyo, 1987, pl. 423, and another in the Meiyintang Collection
wenyang fenqi chuyi', Proceedings of Conference on Ancient Chinese is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
Lacquer, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 65, fig. 11. Collection, vol. 1, London, p. 325, no. 606. Two further qingbai
meipings of this type from the Yangde Tang Collection, were sold
Qingbai vases of similar shape and design are in the collections at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lots 3140 and 3141.
of important museums and institutions around the world. An
almost identical example was in the Qing Court Collection, Two very similar Song dynasty vases, with the cylindrical covers
now in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete and the same combed scrolling decoration, were found in a
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of Southern Song hoard excavated in 1991 at Jinyucun, Suizhu,
the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 167. Two other Sichuan province. See Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics -
examples of varying sizes, one with a height of 26 cm. in the A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, p. 59, nos. 62
Sichuan Chongqing Museum, the other with a height of 35.1 and 63.
cm. in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, are illustrated in
Zhongguo taoci quanji: Song Yuan qingbai ci, vol. 16, Kyoto, 1984, The result of C-Link Research and Development Ltd.
pls. 20 and 101. Another example, registered as an Important thermoluminescence test no. 8822YK03 is consistent with the
Art Object in Japan, is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, dating of this lot.

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