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A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO ‘PEONY’
MEIPING
Northern Song Dynasty
Sturdily potted with an ovoid body sweeping up
from a narrow base to a broad shoulder and a
waisted neck, the exterior applied with a white
slip, skilfully incised through the white slip to the
buff-coloured body with a broad frieze enclosing
blossoming peonies issuing from curling leafy
scrolls, between two bands of lappets around the
foot and neck, covered overall with a translucent
milky glaze. 29.5cm (11 1/2in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

北宋 磁州窯白釉刻花牡丹紋梅瓶

The term Cizhou tends to be freely employed to
classify a wide variety of northern Chinese kilns
using slip designs, which were found particularly
concentrated in Hebei and Henan Provinces, the
most important being the Cizhou site at Guantai in
Cixian (Ci County), in Hebei. Compare with a related
Cizhou sgraffiato meiping decorated with peony
sprays, Northern Song dynasty, in the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, illustrated by R.Kerr, Song
Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004. p.62, no.59. A
related but slightly larger Cizhou ‘peony’ meiping,
Northern Song dynasty, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 3 October 2017, lot 13.
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A DING-TYPE ‘LOTUS POND AND PHOENIX’
SHALLOW BOWL
Southern Song Dynasty
The bowl delicately potted with shallow-rounded
walls rising from a low foot, finely moulded at 3
the centre with a lotus pond made of blooming
lotus and leaves, surrounded by a wide band of
two phoenix flying amidst blossoming peonies
and prunus flowers, all within an outer band of
continuous key-fret designs, all covered with a
brilliant white glaze save from the mouth and foot
rim exposing a fine white clay body.
17.8cm (7in) diam.

£6,000 - 10,000
CNY54,000 - 90,000

南宋 定窯系模印荷塘鳳凰紋盌

The present bowl was probably made at the
Jingdezhen kilns in Jiangxi Province, in imitation
of Ding wares produced at the Quyang County in
Hebei Province. Compare with a closely-related
Ding-type shallow bowl, Southern Song dynasty,
moulded with phoenixes and flowers and covered
in a similar ivory white glaze, illustrated by Ho, K.C.
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, 1994, no.130, pp.296-297.
See also a Qingbai-glazed bowl, Song dynasty,
decorated with a similar combination of phoenix,
flowers and key-fret patterns, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace
Museum. Ceramics of the Song Dynasty, vol.33,
Hong Kong, 1996, p.202, no.184. 4

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