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199 The decoration on the present lot, the style of flowers and ring-
punched ground, zhenzhudi, is undoubtedly influenced by metalwork.
A fine and rare Cizhou ‘peony-scroll’ carved
globular ewer The distinctive style of this particular floral motif, large flower heads
Northern Song/Jin Dynasty made up of multiple narrow petals, appears to have been popular
during this period and was used on Cizhou ewers and vases. In some
The round body raised on a slightly splayed foot, carved through the cases the flower heads are even more deeply and narrowly carved
white slip with a wide band of stylised peonies on an undulating leafy such as the Cizhou ewer with similar stylized engraved floral bands
stem, below a band of leafy scrolls, all on a ring-punched ground, in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Song Ceramics, Tokyo,
the sides applied with a spout and strap handle flanking the short 1999, p.126, no.87.
cylindrical neck.
16cm wide A Cizhou engraved meiping, with a similar ring-punched ground
but with chrysanthemums, is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the
HK$800,000 - 1,200,000 Laiyantang Collection, 2010, p.76, no.29. The author indicates that the
US$100,000 - 150,000 kiln best known for Cizhou-type stoneware with ring-punched grounds
and incised floral decoration is the Dengfengyao kiln.
北宋/金 磁州窯白釉珍珠地刻花執壺
The result of C-Link Research & Development Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no.129YL05 is consistent with the dating of
this lot.

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