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北 A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO ‘PEONY’ VASE
宋 NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

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the baluster body elegantly rising from a splayed foot to a tall trumpet neck with a rolled
州 lip, freely carved through the layer of brown slip to the ivory white layer beneath with large
peony blooms borne on lush broad leaves, all above a lappet band at the base and covered
窰 overall with a transparent glaze
白 21.7 cm, 8½ in.

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HK$ 450,000-550,000
黑 US$ 57,500-70,500

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PROVENANCE 來源：
Sotheby’s London, 13th July 2005, lot 132. 倫敦蘇富比2005年7月13日，編號132

otable for their vividly contrasting sgraffiato decoration, vases of this type are held in important
N museums and private collections worldwide; see one from the collection of Hirota Matsushige,
now in the Tokyo National Museum, published in Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese
Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 560; another in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in Chinese
Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 115; a third in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo,
included in the Museum’s exhibition Famous Pieces of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Tokyo, 1983, cat. no.
23; and a further example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, published in John Ayers, Far
Eastern Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 113.
A reconstructed vase of this form and decoration was recovered at the Cizhou kiln site in Guantai, Ci
County, Henan province and illustrated in The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, col. pl. 9, no. 2.

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