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拍品 81
  • 81

北宋 磁州綠釉黑花牡丹紋瓶

估價
650,000 - 850,000 USD
招標截止

描述

  • ceramic
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elegantly potted with an ovoid body rising from a flared foot and surmounted by a trumpet mouth with a rolled rim, painted on each side in a rich black-brown slip with a large peony flower amidst dense leaves, the long stem extending down the body and coiling to the left, the central flower enhanced with deftly incised outlines and combed details, covered overall with a thin transparent bright green glaze continuing over the rim and pooling to a darker green around the foot, the base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3)

來源

1980年前日本收藏

Condition

The vase is in overall good condition. There are earth stains underneath the rim and on the foot. There are three spur marks on the base.
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拍品資料及來源

The present magnificent vase belongs to a small group of Cizhou wares decorated with a black floral design under a green glaze. Vessels of this type can be traced back to the Guantai kilns, Cixian, Hebei province, towards the Jin (1115-1234) and Yuan (1279-1368) periods, together with white-ground vessels with black painted decoration. These kilns eventually developed a new style in ceramics which was most successfully adopted in Jingdezhen, where decoration became of primary importance in a vessel. Vases of this shape and decoration, both with green and white glazes, have been found at the Cizhou kiln site in Guantai, published in Guantai Cizhou yaozhi, Beijing, 1997, col. pl. 9, fig. 2; pl. 13, fig. 3 (center); pl. 23, figs. 1 and 2; pl. 70, fig. 1; pl. 123, fig. 52 (1 and 4); and pl. 127, fig. 54 (2).

Vases of this type include one in the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3, pt. II, London, 2006, pl. 1541 (fig. 1); and one from the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, included in the exhibition Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600AD, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, cat. no. 95, illustrated with two further examples from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, and a private Japanese collection, p. 214, figs. 277 and 278, together with a cream-glazed vase of this distinctive shape and decoration, cat. no. 90. Three further vases with carved decoration, in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, the Yamato Bukankan, Nara, and a Japanese private collection, were exhibited in Charm of Black and White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 2002, cat. nos. 106-108; and another illustrated in Handbook of the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1970, p. 66 (left).

A meiping belonging to this special group of green-glazed wares, similarly decorated with a peony branch, from the George Eumorfopoulos collection, and now in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. 3, London, 1926, pl. LII. Two similar vases were sold in our London rooms: the first, 14th November 1972, lot 350 (fig. 2); the second, 9th June 2004, lot 164 (fig. 3).