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[PRIVATE TAIWANESE COLLECTION] CHINESE JIZHOU RESIST-DECORATED 'PRUNUS' VASE
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
£4,536
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
南宋 吉州窯剪紙剔花梅花紋黑釉瓶
the pear-shaped body raised on a short spreading foot, with an elongated neck and flaring rim, resist-decorated with two prunus branches in full bloom, covered in rich brownish-black glaze
Dimensions
17cm high
Provenance
Private Taiwanese collection
Exhibited: The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2004, Exhibition lot number: Zhan 展109
Published: Cheng Qiren, 百代昌吉 : 黑釉・磁州・吉州窯 (Good Fortune Throughout History : an exhibition of black glaze and porcelain from Tzu-chou and Ji-chou kilns), The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2004, catalogue no. 33, p.66
臺灣私人收藏
展覽：「百代昌吉：黑瓷・磁州・吉州窯特展」，國立歷史博物館，臺北，2004。展號「展109」。
著錄：成耆仁著：《百代昌吉：黑瓷・磁州・吉州窯》，臺北：國立歷史博物館，2004，圖版33，頁66。
Footnote
For a similar vase of slightly more squated shape from the Scheinman Collection, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, no. 102, pp. 251-2, where the author discusses the method of decoration on wares of this type. Another similar vase is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession number: EAX.1573.