A CIZHOU WHITE GLAZED VASE

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

Details

A CIZHOU WHITE GLAZED VASE
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The vase has a tapering body rising to an angled shoulder and tall neck that flares slightly to the lipped rim, and is covered with a transparent glaze over a white slip ending inside the neck and above the flared foot.
13 ½ in. (34.4 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box

Provenance

Daijindo, Tokyo.

Lot Essay

A very similar vase in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, no. 77. Another similar example, but with a more globular body, is illustrated in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, no. 20.

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