A CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

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A CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
The body is carved through the brown glaze to the buff body with a broad band of leaf scroll below a narrower band of leaf scroll on the shoulder, all within line borders below the brown-glazed, waisted neck and flared mouth.
11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Literature

Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition 'Run through 10 years', 2006, no. 96.

Exhibited

Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition 'Run through 10 years', 22-23 November, 2006.

Lot Essay

Compare the cut-glaze bottle of this shape carved with related decoration, in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995, pp. 189-90, no. 68, which is dated Xixia Kingdom or Jin to Yuan, 13th-14th century.

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