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A CIZHOU PAINTED BALUSTER JAR
Yuan Dynasty
Of compressed baluster form rising from a
recessed base, painted in black slip on a
cream ground, with a band of three lozenge-
shaped panels, variously depicting a lotus
spray and scholarly figures in landscape, all
within decorative bands and spiral borders.
31cm (12 1/8 in) high

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY28,000 - 46,000
HK$33,000 - 55,000

Provenance
Sir Harry and Lady Garner Collection
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, Catalogue, 1973,
no.30, pl.VI
J.T.Tai Collection
Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 149

Compare a similar Cizhou baluster vase, Yuan 8
dynasty, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey
of Chinese Ceramics: Liao, Hsi-Hsia, Chin
and Yuan Wares, Taipei, 1992, p.276. For
another similar vase from the Robert Lehman
Collection, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, see S.G.Valenstein, A Handbook
of Chinese Ceramics, New York, NY, 1989,
p.144, pl.139.

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A CIZHOU BOTTLE VASE

Yuan Dynasty
The exterior vigorously painted with
abstracted floral designs over a cream-
coloured slip background, two copper metal
infilled repairs; together with a green lead-
glazed saddle-bag form ewer with incised
lotus decoration and two high-relief figures at
the spout, Probably Liao Dynasty. 21.5cm (8
1/2in) high (2).

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,300 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000

Provenance
Purchased from Artemesia Oriental Porcelain
on 22 December 1988 (receipt)

9 (part lot)

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