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A RARE GREEN-GLAZED CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO fig. 1 Green-glazed Cizhou sgraffiato vase, registered as an Important

‘PEONY’ VASE Art Object in Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976
圖一 宋 磁州窯綠釉剔花瓶 日本重要美術品
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

The well-balanced baluster body is supported on a high splayed
foot and with a tall tapering neck ending on a wide rolled-out
everted rim, delicately carved and incised with two large peony
blooms borne on leafy stems, all above a band of overlapping
petals at the base.
11 in. (31 cm.) high

HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000

PROVENANCE 北宋 / 金 磁州窯綠釉剔花牡丹紋瓶

Acquired by a European collector from Kusaka Shogado,Tokyo, 來源
in the 1930s and thence by descent 歐洲私人珍藏，於 1930 年代購自日本東京日下尚雅堂，後
Sold at Christie’s London, 12 May 2009, lot 153 於家族中流傳
倫敦佳士得，2009 年 5 月 12 日，拍品 153 號
Green-glazed Cizhou vases of this shape and decoration are extremely
rare. Most known examples have the same peony decoration rendered 磁州綠釉剔花瓶極為罕有，而在已知例子當中，幾乎全部都是綠地剔黑
in black slip, while the current vase is carved through white slip 花品種，如本瓶般以白剔花襯托綠釉的作品目前所知只有一件，同樣飾
and covered with a translucent green glaze. The only known other 牡丹紋，被收錄在 1976 年東京出版的《龍泉集芳》，第一冊，圖版 556
example also decorated with white peony motifs under a green glaze 號，並註冊為日本重要美術品（圖一），可見本拍品之稀有度及重要性。
is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 556,
registered as an Important Art Object (fig. 1). 另可參考數件磁州綠地黑花瓶，器形與紋飾與本瓶一樣，惟牡丹紋為黑
剔花，一件為臨宇山人珍藏，被註冊為日本重要美術品，2012 年展於香
Other green-glazed Cizhou vases decorated with peony in black slip 港佳士得《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，圖版 52 號；另一件
include one in the Linyushanren Collection, exhibited in The Classic 藏大和文華館，著錄於《龍泉集芳》，第一冊，圖版 557 號；一件著錄
Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the 於 1977 年東京出版《世界陶磁全集》，第 12 冊，圖 237；一件藏出光
Linyushanren Collection, Christie’s Hong Kong, 2012, pl. 52; one from 美術館，著錄於 1986 年東京出版《出光美術館藏品圖錄：中国陶磁》，
the Museum Yamoto Bunkakan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 圖版 117 號；一件藏瑞士鮑氏珍藏，見 1968 年日內瓦出版《The Baur
op. cit., pl. 557; one illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, p. Collection, Chinese Ceramics I》，圖版 A78 號。
242, fig. 237; one from the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated
in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Museum Collection, Tokyo, 1986, pl. 此器經 CIRAM 科技測試（測試編號 0714-OA-207R），證實與本圖錄
117; and one in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in J. Ayers, The 之定年符合。
Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics I, Switzerland, 1968, pl. A78.

CIRAM Scientific Analysis Certificate no. 0714-OA-207R is consistent
with the dating of this lot.

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