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839 A VERY RARE CIZHOU 北宋 金ǭ十Հ 十Ӳ世紀ǭ
SGRAFFIATO VASE 磁州窯白地黑釉劃花幾何紋≡
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped vase has a wide neck that tapers to the flat, Ϝ源
everted rim, and is carved on the body through the dark-brown 倫敦蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
glaze to the creamy-white slip ground with a wide band of 藍理捷
紐約
編號Y
geometric panels enclosing trefoil clouds on striated grounds,
below a band of foliate scroll and a band of wavy lines on the
neck. The top of the neck and the mouth rim are left in creamy
white. The grooved foot and recessed base are unglazed.
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box
$150,000-200,000
PROVENANCE:
Offered, Sotheby's London, 17 November 1999, lot 731.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. x2609.
The shape of this vase is rare to find in Cizhou wares, but
a Yaozhou vase of similar shape from the Eumofopoulos
Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 29, where it
is dated to the 11th-12th century. The design of the trefoil-like
clouds in the central band on the present vase is also very rare.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence
test no. P199u52 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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