17th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Asian Art Holiday Sale
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A RARE IVORY-WHITE GLAZED MEIPING, SONG TO YUAN DYNASTY
Sold for €1,820
including Buyer's Premium
China, 960-1368. Finely potted, the elegant body surmounted by a short waisted neck with an everted lipped rim. The exterior is covered in an ivory-white glaze with a rust-brown patch at the shoulder, the mouth notably with a lustrous black and russet glaze, the base left unglazed revealing the buff ware.
Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Jonathan Broido (1941-2008), who was a professor of mathematics and philosophy as well as a passionate collector of Chinese art and archaic Turkoman weavings, known for his expertise and scholarly approach. He traveled throughout Asia acquiring pieces for his collection, as well as making some spectacular finds in UK and US antique markets, auctions and trade.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, few chips, light scratches, small losses, a hairline to the foot that has been stabilized, manufacturing irregularities including firing cracks. Minor touchups to the glaze.
Weight: 3,231 g
Dimensions: Height 33.3 cm
Expert’s note:
During the Song and Yuan periods, vessels of this distinctive shape, commonly called meiping, or plum vase, served primarily as storage containers for liquids such as wine. A number of similar Cizhou meiping dated to the Yuan period bear the inscription nei fu (palace repository) on the shoulder, an example of which is in the Tokyo National Museum and illustrated by Y. Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, p. 171, pl. 73, along with five other examples bearing nei fu marks, p. 170, figs. 189-93. One example, fig. 189, was found in a Yuan storage cellar at Liangxiangzhen in Beijing.
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related Yuan dynasty Meiping, 27.5 cm high, in the National Museum of Asian Art, accession number F1905.279. Note the related “olive-black” glaze at the mouth. Note the attribution to “possibly Shandong province”, likely referring to the Yaozhou kilns because of the “olive-black” mouth.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 295
Price: USD 42,500 or approx. EUR 54,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A ‘Cizhou’ vase (meiping), Song dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, the similar creamy-white glaze, and the size (32 cm).
China, 960-1368. Finely potted, the elegant body surmounted by a short waisted neck with an everted lipped rim. The exterior is covered in an ivory-white glaze with a rust-brown patch at the shoulder, the mouth notably with a lustrous black and russet glaze, the base left unglazed revealing the buff ware.
Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Jonathan Broido (1941-2008), who was a professor of mathematics and philosophy as well as a passionate collector of Chinese art and archaic Turkoman weavings, known for his expertise and scholarly approach. He traveled throughout Asia acquiring pieces for his collection, as well as making some spectacular finds in UK and US antique markets, auctions and trade.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, few chips, light scratches, small losses, a hairline to the foot that has been stabilized, manufacturing irregularities including firing cracks. Minor touchups to the glaze.
Weight: 3,231 g
Dimensions: Height 33.3 cm
Expert’s note:
During the Song and Yuan periods, vessels of this distinctive shape, commonly called meiping, or plum vase, served primarily as storage containers for liquids such as wine. A number of similar Cizhou meiping dated to the Yuan period bear the inscription nei fu (palace repository) on the shoulder, an example of which is in the Tokyo National Museum and illustrated by Y. Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, p. 171, pl. 73, along with five other examples bearing nei fu marks, p. 170, figs. 189-93. One example, fig. 189, was found in a Yuan storage cellar at Liangxiangzhen in Beijing.
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related Yuan dynasty Meiping, 27.5 cm high, in the National Museum of Asian Art, accession number F1905.279. Note the related “olive-black” glaze at the mouth. Note the attribution to “possibly Shandong province”, likely referring to the Yaozhou kilns because of the “olive-black” mouth.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2011, lot 295
Price: USD 42,500 or approx. EUR 54,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A ‘Cizhou’ vase (meiping), Song dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, the similar creamy-white glaze, and the size (32 cm).
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