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A LARGE HENAN RUSSET-PAINTED liquids. Typically dark-glazed, such bottles are often painted
BLACK-GLAZED WINE JAR in russet in this instance decorated with an abstract phoenix
design. Birds in flight, or abstract floral decoration, rendered
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234) with vigorous, calligraphic strokes, are characteristic of there
jars.
The high shouldered body is surmounted by a ribbed neck
below an everted mouth rim. It is decorated in bold brush A jar of this type, with floral decoration rather than the birds
strokes with three abstract phoenix of russet-brown tone, on the shoulder of the present jar, in the collection of Dr.
reserved against a black ground that stops above the narrow Robert Barron, is illustrated by R.D. Mowry in Hare’s Fur,
foot exposing the buff body. Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, p. 165,
no. 55, and subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 30
11¿ in. (28.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box March 2005, lot 303. Compare also a related jar of larger size
from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, sold at Christie’s
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000 New York, The Collection Of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth
Part I - Masterworks Including Indian, Himalayan And
PROVENANCE Southeast Asian Works Of Art, Chinese And Japanese Works
Kochukyo, Tokyo Of Art, 17 March 2015, lot 19.
EXHIBITED 金 黑釉繪鐵銹斑鳳紋瓶
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition
of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 來源
22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; 壺中居，東京
London, 10 to 14 May 2013, Catalogue, no. 36
展覽
LITERATURE 佳士得，《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，香港，2012
Christie’s, The Classical Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition 年11月22至27日；紐約，2013年3月15至20日；倫敦，2013年
of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 5月10至14日，圖錄編號36
2012, pp. 98-99, no. 36
著錄
Ovoid jars of this type, with this distinctive small, double- 佳士得，《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，香港，2012
ringed mouth, are termed xiaokou ping (small-mouthed 年，98-99頁，編號36
bottles), and were probably used for storing wine and other
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