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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEANNETTE CURUBY

TWO ‘CIZHOU’ PAINTED STONEWARE
FIGURES OF ZHENWU
YUAN / EARLY MING DYNASTY

each similarly hollow-molded, the bearded immortal wearing
long owing robes beneath chainmail breast plates, seated on
a cloth-draped throne with a snake-coiled tortoise subdued
below, painted in dark and russet browns on a white slip under
a clear glaze (2)
Height 8⅛ in., 20.6 cm

PROVENANCE

Acquired in Boston, 1940-60, and thence by descent.

See catalogue note at .

$ 5,000-7,000 1052

⃫ġİġ㖶⇅ġġġ䡩ⶆ䩘䛇㬎⛸⁷ℑẞ 1053

PROPERTY FROM THE BELLA AND P.P. CHIU COLLECTION

A ‘CIZHOU’ BLACK-GLAZED SGRAFFIATO
VASE
JIN DYNASTY

the ovoid body swelling broadly at the shoulder and set with
two tab handles before the short straight neck and wide
everted mouth rim, applied overall with a lustrous black-glaze
transmuting to russet-colored striations, boldly cut through
with a broad band of two blossoms borne on leafy stems
enclosed within a triple and a single incised line border, the
glaze stopping above the base revealing the bu -colored
stoneware body
Height 9¾ in., 24.8 cm

$ 3,000-5,000

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A ‘CIZHOU’ ‘CALLIGRAPHY’ MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY

the ovoid tapering body rising from a recessed base to a short
narrow neck and steeply everted mouth rim, calligraphically
inscribed with a couplet in dark brown on a creamy-white
ground
Height 13¾ in., 34.9 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Wah L. Liu, New York.

$ 5,000-7,000
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