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844 A CIZHOU-TYPE RUSSET-SPLASHED 北宋 金ǭ磁州窯黑釉鷓鴣斑≡
BLACK-GLAZED VASE
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號 "
The vase has a tapering body and high rounded shoulders
surmounted by a short neck and everted rim. It is covered overall
with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze splashed with russet-brown A meiping in the Art Institute of Chicago, which is similarly glazed
markings in the form of abstract five-petaled flowers, and ends in an and also has a flat, everted mouth rim, is illustrated by R. Mowry
irregular line above the foot.
in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) high, cloth box Art Museums, 1996, no. 35. In his discussion of the russet
markings the author notes that the “term, zhegu ban (partridge-
$40,000-60,000
feather mottles) appears in texts of the mid-tenth century to
PROVENANCE: describe ceramics with mottled decoration.” He further notes that
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4415A. the larger “partridge-feather mottles,” of the type seen on both
meiping, “began to appear in dark-glazed Cizhou-type wares in the
eleventh century.”

843 A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK- 宋ǭ黑釉鐵斑盤
GLAZED DISH
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The dish has a flat everted rim and is covered with a lustrous
blackish-brown glaze liberally splashed in rust-brown tones with
silvery iridescence, and ends in an irregular line on the reverse.
6æ in. (17.1 cm.) diam., cloth box
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3539.

A similar dish with russet splashes, of comparable size to the
current dish, was sold at Christie's New York, 14-15 September
2017, lot 1157.

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