A 'CIZHOU' BLACK-GLAZED VASE NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the ovoid body supported on a pronounced splayed foot, rising to a tall trumpet mouth slightly splayed over the waisted neck, applied with a lustrous brown-black glaze scattered overall with iron-russet florets, the glaze stopping well above the foot to reveal the buff body

Warren E. Cox, New York, no. 105 (according to label).
The Concordia House Collection, Sotheby's New York, 19th March 2007, lot 129.

A section of the rim has been restored. There are restored chips to the foot rim. Otherwise, in overall good condition.
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It is very rare to find a black-glazed vase of this form and with this type of splashed decoration. A larger vase of very similar form with overall rust-brown splashes, from the Alfred Schoenlicht and later the Marianne Landau collection, sold in our London rooms, 13th December 1955, lot 20, was included in the exhibition, Song Chinese Ceramics: 10th to 13th Century, Eskenazi, London, 2003, cat. no. 7; while another vase is illustrated in Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 1, New York, 1944, pl. 54 top left; and a smaller splashed vase of this type is published in Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 563. Compare also one sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 163; and another sold in these rooms, 7th February 1974, lot 156.