NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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A LARGE CIZHOU VASE
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The vase has a round body that tapers to the splayed foot, and a tall slender neck rising to the wide, flaring dish-shaped mouth. It is covered with a creamy white slip under a clear glaze suffused with fine crackle, with some areas stained a pale reddish tone.
15 3/4 in. (40 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

Private collection, New Canaan, Connecticut.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4900.

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Lot Essay

A very similar Northern Song vase excavated in 1998 at Huangpu, Tochuan city, Shaanxi province, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 15, Shaanxi, Beijing, 2008, p. 130, no. 130, where it is noted that although the vase was discovered at the Yaozhou kiln site, it is not Yaozhou ware.

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