Lot 836
836
A CARVED CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING
A CARVED CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING
A CARVED CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING
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A CARVED CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

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A CARVED CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The tapering body is carved through the creamy-white slip to the pale-grey ground with a central band of geese and oversized leaves between two foliate scrolls above and a petal border below, all under a clear glaze.
14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3424.

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Lot Essay

A Cizhou meiping of very similar form carved with the same pattern is in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, donated by Mr. Hirota Matsushige, and is published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 138, no. 555. A slightly larger Cizhou meiping with related bands of decoration is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, accession no. 26.292.56.

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