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A CARVED QINGBAI MEIPING Starting from the early Northern Song dynasty, kilns at
Jingdezhen achieved success in producing very fine white-
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) bodied porcelain covered with a glaze of icy blue tinge,
earning the name qingbai, ‘blue white’, or yingqing, ‘shadow
The meiping with high-shouldered, tapering body is carved with blue’. The exquisite quality of qingbai porcelain was widely
a broad band of scrolling tendrils between double borders. It is recognised, and the Southern Song ceramic historian Jiang Qi
covered inside and out with a glaze of pale aquamarine tone that mentioned in his treatise Tao ji (Ceramic Records) that white
ends above the foot to expose the fine biscuit ware. porcelain produced at Jingdezhen was so refined and pure that
it was known as Raoyu, ‘jade of Rao’. Raozhou was the name
10º in. (26.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box of the region in which the Jingdezhen kilns were located.

HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000 A larged example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26
November 2014, lot 3231. A similarly carved meiping with
PROVENANCE broader shoulders is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12,
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo Song, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 30; and another is illustrated in
Mayuyama Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 417.
EXHIBITED
Sen Shu Tey, Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, Tokyo, 南宋 青白釉刻卷草紋梅瓶
2006, Catalogue, no. 85
來源
LITERATURE 千秋庭，東京
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art, Tokyo, 2006, p. 67,
no. 85 展覽
千秋庭，《創立十周年紀念展覽會》，東京，2006年，圖錄編
號85

著錄
千秋庭，《中國美術蒐集》，東京，2006年，67頁，編號85

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