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183 Compare with a very similar vase from the Tokyo National Museum,
A fine and very rare Jizhou ‘guri’-style vase,
meiping
Southern Song Dynasty
Elegantly potted, the slender baluster body with high shoulders,
brightly and carefully painted with heart-shaped ‘guri’-style scroll
patterns in blue and buff tones, all on a dark black-brown ground, the
neck encircled with a key-fret band rising to a lipped mouth rim.
22.5cm high
HK$800,000 - 1,200,000
US$100,000 - 150,000
南宋 吉州窯仿剔犀如意雲紋梅瓶
‘Guri’-style is a term typically used to describe Jizhou ceramics
that are painted or moulded with designs imitating those found on
lacquer wares. These designs include a characteristic symmetrical
arrangement of scrolls and geometric designs, which are repeated to
fill the entire surface. The term ‘guri’ (the Japanese pronunciation of
ruyi), was first used to describe the patterns carved into on Southern
Song Dynasty lacquer wares, that resembled the decoration on sword
pommels.
The symmetrical compositions, comprising rounded scrolls that
form ruyi or heart-shaped patterns, as seen on this lot, presented an
extremely difficult challenge for Jizhou ceramic decorators. Painted
onto the unfired dark glaze, an exceptional level of control was needed
to successfully render the designs symmetrical and achieve the
contrast in colours. Vessels completely covered in this design are rare. 角斷面層肌理而得名。這種工藝多見於宋代漆器上，銀器裝飾中也見
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illustrated by Margaret Medley in The Chinese Potter, A Practical
History of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1976, p.160, no.120. Another
nearly identical meiping was also included in the exhibition The
Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics, An Exhibition of Song Treasures
from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, New York, London,
22 November 2012 - 14 May 2013, p.112-113, no.43. This form of
decoration was also applied on bowls: for example, one from the
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum, Kobe, is illustrated by H. Nishida and
S. Sato, eds. Chinese Ceramics. Temmoku, vol.6, 1999, p.127. A
fragment of a bowl with the same type of scrolling decoration has
also been excavated from the Song stratum at the Jizhou kiln site at
Ji’anxian and is now in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, published in
Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 15, Shanghai, 1986, no. 82.
Several ‘guri’-style Jizhou vases have been sold at auction: including
a very similar meiping sold at Sothebys New York, 30 March 2006,
lot 33; another Jizhou meiping decorated with ‘guri’-style star-shaped
flowers, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong 29 May 2013; and a pair of
‘guri’-style pear-shaped vases with very similarly heart-shaped designs
sold at Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 403. See also lot 182
for a ‘guri’-style Jizhou bowl from the Feng Wen Tang Collection.
瓶小口，圓唇，段頸，豐肩，足微撇，足底內凹，足心外壁施一層護
胎黑釉。瓶通體施黑釉，瓶頸飾迴紋一周，瓶身外壁飾以對稱萬漩渦
式紋飾，以仿製漆器中剔犀裝飾工藝之效果，線條自然，極為獨特，
為吉州窯黑釉器中裝飾工藝程度較高之品種。
剔犀本為中國漆器中的一種裝飾工藝，因其層層環繞之紋飾酷似犀牛
有模仿。而能在陶瓷裝飾上得到模仿，更顯出吉州窯陶匠獨具慧心的
創意及工藝技巧，先施一種含鐵量較高的釉料，再以含鐵量不同的淺
色釉料仿飾剔犀紋飾，可謂吉州窯黑釉瓷中獨樹一幟的裝飾工藝。
東京國立博物館中藏有一件類似的吉州窯仿剔犀如意雲紋梅瓶可作參
考，見Margaret Medley著，《The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of
Chinese Ceramics》，紐約，1976年，頁160，圖120。另見日本臨宇
山人收藏一件南宋/元吉州窯仿剔犀如意雲紋梅瓶，器形及裝飾本器如
出一轍，見香港佳士得出版《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，
2013年，頁112，圖43。除梅瓶意外，仿剔犀紋飾亦在吉州窯盌類器
物上出現，見日本白鶴美術館藏 一件吉州窯仿剔犀紋盌，著錄於
《中国の陶磁：天目》，卷六，1999年，頁127。吉安縣吉州窯址宋
代底層出土的一片同樣適用仿剔犀紋裝飾的瓷片亦可作參考，瓷片現
藏於江西省博物館，見《中國陶瓷全集：15》，上海，1986年，圖
82。
傳世品中類似之例，包括一件曾售於紐約蘇富比的吉州窯仿剔犀釉
梅瓶，2006年3月30日，編號33；紐約佳士得曾售出一對吉州窯花
瓶，2006年3月29日，編號403，以及香港佳士得曾售出一件類似的
梅瓶，2013年5月29日，編號2001。另參看奉文堂收藏中另一隻吉州
窯仿剔犀盌，拍品182。