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175 The famous Jizhou kiln rose to prominence during the Song Dynasty
A fine and rare Jizhou resist-decorated ‘double and is especially celebrated for its diverse decorative techniques and
prunus’ baluster vase, meiping lustrous black glaze, referred to by some Chinese scholars as ‘Tianmu’
Southern Song Dynasty glaze, or ‘Heavenly-eye’ glaze.
The tapered ovoid body with high shoulders rising to a mouth rim
with flaring lip, resist-decorated around the exterior on each side with A very similar vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is
a large prunus branch, with painted details in brown, all on a lustrous illustrated by Rose Kerr in Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004,
brown-black ground. p.111, no.112. The author states that the branch of prunus blossoms
21cm high would have been rendered by using a wax resist, allowing the unglazed
body to show in contrast with the black-glazed ground. The flower
HK$400,000 - 600,000 stamens would then have been painted in glaze using a fine brush.
US$52,000 - 77,000 Another related example in the Palace Museum Beijing, is illustrated
in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
南宋 吉州窯黑釉剔花折枝梅花紋梅瓶 Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2001, p.237, pl.217.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test
no.P105u19 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
瓶撇口，圓唇，頸部中間微窄，豐肩，肩部往下收窄，平底卧足，成
一個典型的梅瓶形狀。通體施黑釉，烏黑潤澤，圈足露胎，前後方各
以剪紙貼花的方法飾折技梅花紋，露出黃色胎，上有褐彩勾花蕊，簡
潔有力。
剪紙貼花是吉州窯其中一個特色，以貼花方式留白以後，再以毛筆漆
加細節。同以此技巧裝飾的剔花折梅花枝紋瓶，可參考英國維多利亞
及阿伯特博物館之藏品，見Rose Kerr，《Song Dynasty Ceramics》，
倫敦，2004年，頁111，圖版112。 另一件北京故宮博物院藏吉州黑
釉剔花梅瓶，與本拍品如出一轍，大小相近，見李輝柄編，《故宮博
物院藏文物珍品全集：兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，2001年，頁236，
圖版217。
此拍品經牛津鑒定公司熱釋光年法測試（測試編號P105u19），證實
與本圖錄之定代符合。
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