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A CIZHOU PAINTED 'FLORAL' TRUNCATED MEIPING JIN/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY | 金/元 十三世紀 磁州窰白釉褐彩花卉紋梅瓶
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November 4, 07:52 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
德國私人收藏
A CIZHOU PAINTED 'FLORAL' TRUNCATED MEIPING
JIN/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
金/元 十三世紀 磁州窰白釉褐彩花卉紋梅瓶
the compressed cylindrical body with flat shoulders and a short narrow neck, painted around the body in bold strokes with a continuous scroll issuing feathery leaves in brown tones on a whitish-green glaze, the base unglazed
Height 16.8 cm, 6⅝ in.
Acquired from Chak's Gallery, Hong Kong, 1996.
於1996年購自香港永寳齋
This jar is remarkable for its freely painted floral design that envelops the whole body without division into horizontal zones and borders, and is also unusual in shape. Similarly conceived painted designs are sometimes seen on tall Cizhou meiping bottles; for four examples in Japanese collections, painted with overall lotus scrolls, see Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China. Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960 - 1600 AD, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, p. 164, figs 184-186; and Jan Wirgin, 'Sung Ceramic Designs', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 42, 1970, pl. 54 d.