Page 212 - Bonhams Wen Tang Collectiont, October 2014 Hong Kong

195 Active from the late Tang through to the end of the Ming Dynasty,
A very rare Cizhou ‘peony-scroll’ carved globular Cizhou kilns specialised in producing stonewares with opaque slips
jar and cover that were carved through to the darker ground with boldly incised,
Northern Song Dynasty carved or painted designs. The current lot is part of a well-known
Raised on a splayed foot with a lipped mouth rim, finely carved group of Cizhou wares with floral decoration deeply carved through
around the body through the white slip with a wide band of peonies white slip on the surface using the sgraffiato technique to show the
on scrolling leafy stems below a band of overlapping petals, the buff-brown coloured clay below. It is extremely rare to find jars of this
conical cover surmounted with a short cylindrical knop. type with their covers.
14.5cm high (2).
A related Cizhou globular jar, decorated with a very similar wide band
HK$1,000,000 - 1,500,000 of peonies, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung
US$130,000 - 190,000 Ceramics Designs, London, 1970, pl.41f. While the Freer Gallery of
Art jar does not have a lotus-lappet band like the present lot, there
北宋 磁州窯白釉剔牡丹花卉紋蓋罐 are many examples of Cizhou wares with similar lotus-lappet bands
including: a ewer from a private Japanese collection, ibid, pl.41i; an
example illustrated by Zhang Bai, The Complete Works of Chinese
Porcelain Unearthed Vol.3, Hebei, Beijing, 2008, no.138; and a jar
illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong,
1994, pp.326-327, no.145. Compare also with a Cizhou jar sold at
Sotheby’s London, 6 November 2013, lot 219.

罐唇口，豐肩，鼓腹，圈足微撇，底部無釉，傘狀蓋，蓋上一圓柱

鈕。罐胎呈淺灰色，通體以浮雕技法雕刻裝飾，肩部雕蕉葉紋一周，

腹部則雕大葉纏枝牡丹紋，淺灰色胎骨與白釉形成強烈對比，刀工深

峻簡練，紋飾層次分明。

此類採用深刀雕刻法的大畫面花朵及捲葉紋裝飾多見於北宋風格的

磁州窯系器物上，如河北磁州觀台窯出土的白釉剔花枕，其雕刻技

法與此蓋罐類似，見張柏編，《中國出土瓷器全集3，河北》，北
京，2008年，圖版138。更多著錄類似之例，見美國弗瑞爾美術館
藏一件器形及裝飾極為相似的北宋白釉剔花磁州窯罐，著錄 於Jan
Wirgin，《Sung Ceramics Designs》，倫敦，1970年，圖版41f，及
同著錄中一件日本私人舊藏之磁州窯白釉剔花罐，圖版41i；另見一
件類似但紋飾稍簡略之北宋磁州窯白釉剔花罐，香港藝術館編，《關

氏所藏宋代陶瓷》，頁326，圖145。而在近期窯址發掘中，亦在河
南修武當陽峪窯、河南登封窯發現有類似瓷片出土。傳世品 中之例，

見倫敦蘇富比曾售出一件北宋磁州窯剔花蓋罐，2013年11月6日，編
號219。

210 | Bonhams