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A RARE ‘CIZHOU’ SGRAFFIATO VASE 北宋至金 磁州窰白地黑花幾何雲紋瓶
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY
來源：
the pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot to a tapering 倫敦蘇富比1999年11月17日，編號731
neck and a flat everted mouth-rim, the exterior carved through J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約
the dark brown glaze to the creamy-white slip underneath with
a dense design, the main body with a wide geometric frieze of 此瓶器形優雅如梨，鮮有磁州窰類例，且其紋飾精美卓
overlapping hexagonal panels enclosing trefoil clouds against 絕，更是罕有。十一至十二世紀，中國北方諸窰多出此類
a striated ground, all below five bands encircling the neck, two 運用黑白二色雙層化妝土剔花之品，常見大朵黑花樣式，
detailed with wavy lines and foliate scrolls respectively, the 如此瓶之幾何錦紋卻罕。
unglazed footring and recessed base revealing the pale grey
body 此瓶無類例載錄，難以將之歸納到已知磁州窰口。然此
25.4 cm, 10 in. 器形縱罕，也有例可援，如見 Eumorfopoulos 舊藏一耀
州窰瓶，載於 John Ayers，《Far Eastern Ceramics in
PROVENANCE the Victoria and Albert Museum》，倫敦，1980年，彩
圖版29。
Sotheby’s London, 17th November 1999, lot 731.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

HK$ 1,500,000-2,000,000
US$ 194,000-258,000

This vase is very rare for both its elegant pear-shaped form,
which is seldom found among vases made at ‘Cizhou’ kilns,
and its remarkably well-executed design. While vases made in
the sgraffiato technique, in which the design is carved through
a black slip covering a white slip beneath, were made at various
kilns in Northern China from the 11th through the 12th century,
they were commonly decorated with large flower scrolls.

No other closely related vase appears to have been published
and it is difficult to attribute this piece to any of the known
‘Cizhou’ kilns. The form is also rarely seen, but is known, for
example from a Yaozhou vase formerly in the Eumorfopoulos
Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 29.

30 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比