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A LARGE CIZHOU PAINTED AND CARVED VASE, 金 十二世紀
MEIPING 磁州窰褐彩刻花卉紋梅瓶
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
the slender tapering baluster body rising from a slightly 來源
recessed base to broad shoulders ending in a narrow neck with 購自紐約藍理捷
tapering conical mouth, covered overall in an ivory slip, incised
around the body with stylised peony flowers and leaves above
a band of incised upright lotus petals, the shoulders with boldly
painted peony leaves and flowers
Height 36 cm, 14⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
Acquired from James Lally, New York.
£ 30,000-50,000

The combination of painting and carving is characteristic of a
small group of meiping bottles of this classic shape, and can
be seen, for example, on three pieces illustrated in Yutaka
Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries
in Northern China. Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960 - 1600 AD,
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, pl. 72 and
figs. 187 and 188, the former in the Art Institute of Chicago,
the other two in Japanese private collections, one illustrated
again in colour in Mikami Tsugio, ed., Sekai tōji zenshū/
Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 13: Ryō, Kin, Gen/Liao, Chin and
Yüan Dynasties, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 18; another in the Museum
of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is published in Haku to koku no
kyōen/Charm of Black and White Ware: Transition of Cizhou
Type Wares, catalogue of an exhibition at the Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002, no. 79. All these meiping,
however, have the central band decorated by a carved design
or inscription reserved against a combed ground

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