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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK PRIVATE A RARE CARVED ‘CIZHOU’ OFFERING BOWL Collection, exhibited at National Museum of History, Taipei,
COLLECTION JIN / YUAN DYNASTY illustrated in Terre de Neige, de Glace, et d’Ombre: Quatorze
A LARGE PAINTED ‘CIZHOU’ ‘FIGURAL’ JAR Width 12½ in., 31.7 cm Siecles d’histoire de la ceramique chinoise a travers les
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY collections du Musee Guimet, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 115. Even
though it was historically believed to be an inkstone, the
Height 12 in., 30.5 cm PROVENANCE museum catalogue described it as a mortar because it is ‘too
Hong Kong Private Collection, acquired by the early 1990s. big’ to be used for ink grinding.
PROVENANCE The octagonal form featuring incurved facets enclosing a Only one other example of octagonal shape appears to
Property of a Gentleman. central well is extremely rare. The usage of this type of vessel be published, which is in the Meiyintang Collection and
Christie’s London, 11th-13th June 1990, lot 81. is still unknown. Variously described as mortars, inkstones, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Marchant, London. washers or offering bowls, related vessels have been Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, pl. 1535. Qin
Christie’s New York, 14th September 2017, lot 731. historically attributed by scholars to the Dangyangyu kilns Dashu in ‘Baiyou tihua zhuangshi de changsheng, fazhan ji
in northern Henan, one of the several Henan kilns that were xiangguan wenti [The emergence and development of white
A closely related jar decorated with a similar figure of a
robed scholar in a cartouche is in the Freer Gallery of Art, producing ‘Cizhou’ ware. wares with sgrffito designs and related questions]’, Wenwu,
Washington, D.C., and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The Compare a related vessel of circular form, described as no. 11, Beijing, 2001, pl. 24, attributes the Meiyintang piece to
World’s Great Collections, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 84. Compare a ‘brush bath’ from the Frederick M. Mayer collection the Dangyangyu kiln and described it as a washer.
also three other closely related Cizhou jars, one illustrated illustrated in Henry Trubner, Chinese Ceramics from the
in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien Lung, Los Angeles, $ 40,000-60,000
New York, 1989, p. 144, pl. 139; another illustrated in 1952, cat, no. 229; the same vessel was attributed to the
Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, 1976, pl. 658 subsequently Tangyangyu (Dangyangyu) kiln by Jan Wirgin, published 金 / 元 磁州窰白釉剔花纏枝花卉紋器
sold at Christie’s New York, 17th March 2017, lot 1174; the in ‘Sung Ceramic Designs’, The Museum of Far Eastern
third sold in our London rooms, 11th July 1978, lot 107. Antiquities, Bulletin No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 50:i, and
389 illustrated alongside pillows with similar leaf-scroll designs 來源
$ 6,000-8,000 of this type. Compare another example from the M. Calmann 香港私人收藏，1990年代初已入藏

元十四世紀 磁州窰白地黑花開光人物
花鳥圖大罐

來源
紳士收藏
倫敦佳士得1990年6月11至13日，編號81
馬錢特，倫敦
紐約佳士得2017年9月14日，編號731

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GARY AND MARY LEA
BANDY
A LARGE BLACK-GLAZED RUSSET-PAINTED JAR
YUAN DYNASTY
the base with an inscription in black ink, dated to Zhizheng
23rd year, corresponding to 1363
Height 14⅝ in., 37 cm
$ 10,000-15,000

元 黑釉鐵鏽花紋大瓶
390
瓶底墨字：
至正二十三年□七月□□□

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