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3124 A JIZHOU ‘TORTOISE SHELL’-
GLAZED VASE, MEIPING
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SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

The vase is applied to the exterior and base with a
chocolate-brown glaze suffused with buff and moss-green
markings reminiscent of tortoise shell, the interior and foot
ring left unglazed.
7 ¬ in. (19.6 cm.) high, box

HK$180,000-260,000 US$24,000-34,000

南宋 吉州窯玳瑁釉梅瓶

3124

A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACKISH-
BROWN-GLAZED JAR WITH
ROPE-TWIST HANDLE

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

The high-shouldered tapering body is painted in matte
russet brown with two long-tailed birds with spread wings
swooping down from the shoulder in contrast to the
lustrous blackish glaze which also covers the interior where
it thins to a brownish colour, the neatly cut, wide mouth
is applied with a rope-twist loop handle, the interior of the
foot is similarly glazed and the bottom of the foot unglazed
to show the fine pale buff stoneware body.
7 º in. (18.5 cm.) high, box

HK$80,000-150,000 US$11,000-19,000

Similar examples include one illustrated in Eskenazi
exhibition catalogue, Principle Wares of the Song Period
from a Private Collection, London, 2015, pl. 20; one sold at
Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 2005, lot 231; another
illustrated by Basil Gray, Song Porcelain and Stoneware,
London, 1984, p. 121, no. 96. For a jar of similar form
and decoration, but without a handle, see an example in
the Victoria and Albert Museum.

北宋/金 黑釉褐花提籃罐