NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO VASE
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped vase has a wide neck that tapers to the flat, everted rim, and is carved on the body through the dark-brown glaze to the creamy-white slip ground with a wide band of geometric panels enclosing trefoil clouds on striated grounds, below a band of foliate scroll and a band of wavy lines on the neck. The top of the neck and the mouth rim are left in creamy white. The grooved foot and recessed base are unglazed.
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

Offered, Sotheby's London, 17 November 1999, lot 731.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. x2609.

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Lot Essay

The shape of this vase is rare to find in Cizhou wares, but a Yaozhou vase of similar shape from the Eumofopoulos Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 29, where it is dated to the 11th-12th century. The design of the trefoil-like clouds in the central band on the present vase is also very rare.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P199u52 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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