Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection

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Lot 76
  • 76

A BLACK-GLAZED 'SGRAFFITO' JAR JIN / XIXIA DYNASTY

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • ceramic
the ovoid body rising from a recessed base to a short broad neck with a flat lipped rim, carved through the lustrous dark brown glaze to the buff body with a broad and narrow band of dense scrolling foliage

Catalogue Note

See a related sgraffito vase from the Meiyintang Collection also attributed to the Jin / Xixia dynasty, but with a small mouth in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 1, 1994, nos. 454 and 455.