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194 The kilns making Cizhou wares with floral decoration, deeply carved
A fine and rare Cizhou ‘peony-scroll’ carved through white slip on the surface to show the buff-brown coloured
globular jar clay below, are often claimed to have been established at Quhezhen,
Northern Song/Jin Dynasty Dengfengxian, Henan Province which was active from the Tang to the
The body raised on a short spreading foot, boldly decorated on the Yuan Dynasty, and whose production peaked in the Song Dynasty.
exterior through white slip with a strongly contrasting band of large Other than Guantai kiln in Hebei Province and Dangyangyu kiln in
peony blooms on leafy stems, silhouetted crisply against the light Henan Province, fragments of vessels decorated in this technique,
brown body. but depicting stylised floral scrolls with narrow petals, were also found
15cm high in 1962 at this site, exhibited in Kiln Sites of Ancient China - Recent
Finds of Pottery and Porcelain, Oriental Ceramic Society, London,
HK$600,000 - 800,000 1980, p.155, no.389. For another Cizhou ware decorated in the similar
US$77,000 - 100,000 technique from the Feng Wen Tang Collection, see lot 195.

北宋/金 磁州窯白釉剔牡丹花卉紋罐 罐圓身，鼓腹，圈足略撇，灰褐色胎骨。罐身外壁施白色化妝土，並

以剔花技法劃大葉牡丹紋，灰褐色胎骨與白色花紋形成鮮明對比，紋

飾繁而有序，色調雅緻中規，為磁州窯系剔花器中工藝不苟難得之

器。

宋金時期，中國北方山西、河北、河南的一些窯廠為了解決檔次製瓷

原料不夠純淨給陶瓷生產帶來的弊端，在裝飾工藝上另闢蹊徑，大量

採用了剔花裝飾。以此種剔花技法裝飾的瓷片，除了河北觀台窯、河

南修武當陽峪窯之外，河南登封窯亦出土相同瓷片，其中以當陽峪最

為突出。奉文堂收藏中其他亦使用白釉剔花技法裝飾的磁州窯系之

例，見拍品195。

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