A RARE LARGE PAINTED CIZHOU TRUNCATED MEIPING

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

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A RARE LARGE PAINTED CIZHOU TRUNCATED MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The vase has a rounded, tapering body below a slightly waisted neck that rises to a lipped rim, and is painted in blackish-brown slip with three blossoming floral sprigs, all under a clear glaze. The foot ring is unglazed exposing the grey body.
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Literature

Kochukyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1998, no. 25.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 142-3, no. 59.

Exhibited

Kochukyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 2-4 October 1998.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22-27 November 2012; New York, 15-20 March 2013; London, 10-14 May 2013.

Lot Essay

Another truncated meiping, but painted with two large peony sprays, rather than one peony spray and two leaf sprays like the present meiping, is in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, and is illustrated by Yutaka Mino and K. R. Tsiang in Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, pp. 200-1.

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