NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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A VERY RARE PALE-GREEN GLAZED CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO VASE, MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The tapering body is carved with a wide band of four stylized peonies with broad leaves reserved on a brown ground, and below a narrow cloud-form band on the shoulder. The lower half of the body is decorated with incised vertical lines below a diaper band. The vase is covered overall with a thin green-tinged glaze.
14 1/4 in. (16.2 cm.) high, lacquered softwood box, accompanied by a name card inscribed by Koyama Fujio (1900-1975).

Provenance

Private Japanese collection, Kyoto.

Exhibited

Kyoto National Museum, 1955-1970.

Special notice

Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. The amount of the import tariff due is a percentage of the final hammer price plus buyer's premium. The buyer should contact Post Sale Services prior to the sale to determine the estimated amount of the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff, but the shipment may be delayed while awaiting approval to export from the local government. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. For the purpose of calculating sales tax, if applicable, the import tariff will be added to the final hammer price plus buyer's premium and sales tax will be collected as per The Buyer's Premium and Taxes section of the Conditions of Sale.

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Lot Essay

A carved Cizhou meiping of comparable broad proportions and with a similar low conical mouth, but with different decoration and of smaller size (10 3/8 in. high), is illustrated by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, London, 1979, pl. 43(g). The closely spaced, vertical striations around the lower portion of the current vase is extremely rare, as is the unusual pale green tinge of the glaze, which may have results from a reducing atmosphere in the area of the kiln where this vase was fired.

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