A RARE CIZHOU PAINTED GREEN-GLAZED 'PEONY' VASE SONG DYNASTY |

the ovoid body tapering to a splayed foot and surmounted by a tall trumpet neck and rolled rim, painted in black around the exterior with two leafy flower sprays against a green ground, the base unglazed revealing the buff stoneware body

Chak's Co Ltd, Hong Kong, 2000.

The vase is in good condition with only some shallow glaze flakes to the body and along the mouth rim, in consistent with its age. The sheen of the glaze surface is slightly lost with minute crackling throughout, there are some calcified deposits around the foot. Minor glaze firing imperfections.
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A fragmentary vase of this form and decoration, recovered from the Cizhou type kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province, is illustrated in Guantai cizhou yaozhi/ The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, pl. 70, fig. 1; another was included in the exhibition Charm of Black and White Ware. Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002, cat. no. 108; and a third from the collection of Gustaf Lindberg, was sold twice in our London rooms, 12th December 1978, lot 151, and 9th June 2004, lot 164. Compare also a green-glazed Cizhou 'prunus' meiping, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 151.