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A CIZHOU CARVED BROWN-GLAZED BUFF-STONEWARE A CARVED AND COMBED YAOZHOU GREEN-WARE TEA BOWL
GLOBULAR JAR Northern Song Dynasty
Jin-Yuan Dynasty, 13/14th Century Of gently-rounded conical shape, the interior carved at the center with
The dark black-brown glaze carved in a wide band around the body a thick coiling leafy-tendrils below gently-combed concentric-arcs in
with neatly delineated scrolling foliage between simple double lines a continuous petal-like design around the center, the whole perhaps
exposing the pale stoneware body beneath, below a slender waisted depicting a single large flowerhead, all under a pale celadon-green
neck with slightly everted rim, the glaze pooling unevenly above the glaze which continues on the plain exterior, save for a single incised
foot revealing the grey stoneware body and knife-cut foot rim, the base line at the mid-body, and thins unevenly to a grey and pale brown at
interior glazed. the foot edge, the foot and base firing to a reddish-brown with a few
7in (17.7cm) high random spots of glaze.
5 1/8in (13cm) diameter
$3,000 - 5,000
$1,500 - 2,500
金至元 十三/十四世紀 磁州窯黑褐釉刻花罐
北宋 耀州窯青釉刻花紋盌
For a more squat example also carved through a rich glaze with
stylized leafy scroll band around the body, see J.J. Lally, Oriental Art, Other Yaozhou examples of the same pattern and shape in the Palace
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Museum, Beijing are illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu
Marvin L. Gordon, New York, March-April, 2009, no. 47. Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi, The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty), Vol. 32, Hong
For others similarly carved jars with a band of decoration above a Kong, 1996, p. 120, no. 106
plain brown band nearer the foot, see Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo
National Museum, Chinese Ceramics:I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 156, no. For a very similar example formerly in the George De Menasce
628; Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, collection, see J.J. Lally, Oriental Art, Early Chinese Ceramics, An
Volume One, London, 1994, p. 250, no. 453; and Mary Treaggear, American Private Collection, March-April, 2005, no. 52.
Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 95, pl. 99 in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford. See also Sotheby’s New York, 23 September 2020, lot 704, for a very
similar Yaozhou bowl; and Christie’s, New York, Online sale, 13-20 July
2017, lot 165.

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