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A cIZhOu RusseT-PAINTed ‘FlORAl’ bOTTle,
XIAOKOu PINg, JIN OR yuAN
China, 13th-14th century. The ovoid body supported on a circular foot
ring with a recessed base and rising to a short neck and a canted lip, Literature comparison: Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from
covered with a mottled black and russet glaze, the shoulder painted in the robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, p. 112-113, pl. 41. r.
iron oxide with a stylized floral pattern, the foot left unglazed. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown-
and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums,
Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 55, p. 255. R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Provenance: Ming House, Hong Kong. Dr. Koos de Jong, acquired Meiyintang Collection, Vols. I, London 1994, no. 465, p. 255. He Li, Chinese
from the above in 1999 (invoice not available). Dr. de Jong is a Dutch art Ceramics, London 1996, p. 166, ill. 309. Inaugural Exhibition, Vol. 1. Chinese
historian and has been privately collecting Chinese art over decades. He Ceramics, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath 1993, no. 125, p. 171.
has authored hundreds of articles and several books on Dutch fine and
decorative arts spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern era. In AucTION ResulT cOMPARIsON
2013, he published an extensive study of Chinese riding gear in “Dragon Compare with a related but slightly
& Horse, Saddle rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond”. larger bottle sold by Christie’s New york
Between 1976 and 2009 he worked for numerous museums across the in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of
Netherlands and was the director of the European Ceramic Work Center Art on 20-21 March 2014, lot 2084, for
in Den Bosch. USD $15,625.
condition: Good condition with minor wear and firing irregularities.
Strong wear with glaze abrasions to lip. No repairs or touchups of any
kind! 磁州窯印花紋小口瓶，金或元
中國，十三至十四世紀。卵形瓶體，圈足，底部呈凹形，短頸，斜唇，瓶體覆蓋著斑
Weight: 1,558 g 駁的黑色和赤褐色釉，肩上鐵紅色花卉紋，足上未上釉。
Dimensions: Height 19.8 cm 來源：香港Ming House收藏；Drs. Koos de Jong收藏，1999年購於上述收藏（發
票已遺失）。Drs. de Jong是一位荷蘭藝術史學家， 幾十年來他一直私人收藏中國藝
The glazed base with an inscribed mark, possibly the Chinese character for 術品。他撰寫了數百篇文章和幾本書，內容涉及從中世紀到現代的荷蘭美術和裝飾藝
the number ‘two’. 術。 2013年，他在《Dragon & Horse：Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from
China and Beyond》中發表了有關中國騎馬裝備的詳盡研究。1976年至2009年
間，他曾在荷蘭的許多博物館工作，並曾擔任登博世歐洲陶瓷工作中心的主任。
Due to the high concentration of iron oxide, the flowers painted by hand 品相：品相良好，輕微磨損與燒製瑕疵。嚴重磨損，瓶唇釉面磨損，沒有任何修補
show a luster effect. Ovoid jars of this type, with these distinctive small, 或粘黏。
ringed mouths, are termed xiaokou ping (small-mouthed bottles) and were 重量：1,558 克
probably sealed with a fabric-wrapped wooden dowel and used for storing 尺寸：高19.8 厘米
wine and other liquids. Typically dark-glazed, such bottles are often painted
in russet or rust-brown slip with abstract floral decoration or designs estimate euR 3.000,-
suggestive of birds in flight, rendered in vigorous, calligraphic strokes. Starting price EUr 1.500,-

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