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A LARGE ‘CIZHOU’ BLACK-GLAZED 北宋 磁州窰黑地刻白花牡丹蓮紋梅瓶
SGRAFFIATO ‘FLORAL’ MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY 來源：
楊永德收藏
well potted with a tall slender tapered body sweeping up to
a round shoulder, surmounted by a short waisted neck and 展覽：
tapering mouth, the body freely carved through the layer of 《楊永德伉儷珍藏黑釉瓷》，西漢南越王博物館，廣州，
dark brown slip with three main registers, the slip falling short 1997年，編號19
of the countersunk base, the central frieze with a large peony 《楊永德伉儷珍藏中國古代黑釉瓷》，香港中文大學文物
and lotus bloom against a striated ground, between a thin 館，香港，1999年
border picked out with scrolling motifs and a broad band with
upright overlapping lappets
38.6 cm, 15⅛ in.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Yeung Wing Tak.

EXHIBITED

Yang Yongde kangli zhencang heiyou ci/ Black Porcelain
from the Mr & Mrs Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Museum of
the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King,
Guangzhou, 1997, cat. no. 19.
Ancient Chinese Black Wares from the Collection of Mr and
Mrs Yeung Wing Tak, Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong, 1999.

HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,800-38,700

The present vase belongs to a rare group of sgraffiato wares
involving a labour-intensive technique to produce the two-
slip decoration. Shards similarly decorated and carved have
been found at the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei
Province, the majority of which seems to emerge from strata
corresponding to the Northern Song dynasty; for related
fragments recovered from this site see Yutaka Mino, The
Cizhou Kiln at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, col. pl. 21, fig. 96.

For discussions and illustrations of similar pieces in important
collections, compare Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of
Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 93, no. 88 for an
illustration of a carved meiping now in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. A vase in the British Museum is
illustrated in Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through
Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares,
960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1981, pp. 102-3, pl.
39 and fig. 97. Others, in the Kyoto National Museum and the
Ise Foundation respectively, are published in Charm of Black &
White Ware: Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art, 2002, nos 51 and 52. A more freely incised
meiping with different borders is in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, illustrated in Wu Tung, Earth Transformed Chinese
Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2001, p. 63. The
John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection example is illustrated in
Treasures of Asian Art: The Asia Society’s Mr and Mrs John D.
Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1994, p. 161, no. 154.

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