24th Jan, 2025 11:00

Four-Day Auction: Asian Art Discoveries

 
Lot 935
 

935

A RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO TRUNCATED MEIPING, TULUPING, SONG DYNASTY STYLE

Sold for €1,950

including Buyer's Premium


Lot details

China, 20th century or earlier. The high-shouldered body surmounted by a short narrow neck and outwardly curved rim, finely decorated in a cut-slip technique through the outer dark-brown layer of the slip to the white layer underneath and covered overall in a clear pale-crackled glaze. The body encircled with four large peony blooms borne on a meandering scroll with trefoil leaves below scrolling bands, all between overlapping petal-lappets. The mouth left in white slip, the unglazed base revealing the smooth pale gray ware.

Provenance: New York trade. Acquired from a private collector, by repute.
Condition: Very good condition with some old wear, the foot with some smoothened chips, shallow surface scratches, some firing irregularities, glaze flakes, and one vertical hairline. The foot with some smoothened chips and minor fills.

Weight: 1,125 g
Dimensions: Height 15 cm. Diameter 15.5 cm

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2021, lot 123
Estimate: USD 200,000 or approx. EUR 213,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A superb black-glazed 'Cizhou' sgraffiato 'peony' 'tulu' vase, Northern Song / Jin dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related form and sgraffiato decoration. Note the larger size (23 cm). Note that this compares the present lot with a confirmed original from the period.

 

China, 20th century or earlier. The high-shouldered body surmounted by a short narrow neck and outwardly curved rim, finely decorated in a cut-slip technique through the outer dark-brown layer of the slip to the white layer underneath and covered overall in a clear pale-crackled glaze. The body encircled with four large peony blooms borne on a meandering scroll with trefoil leaves below scrolling bands, all between overlapping petal-lappets. The mouth left in white slip, the unglazed base revealing the smooth pale gray ware.

Provenance: New York trade. Acquired from a private collector, by repute.
Condition: Very good condition with some old wear, the foot with some smoothened chips, shallow surface scratches, some firing irregularities, glaze flakes, and one vertical hairline. The foot with some smoothened chips and minor fills.

Weight: 1,125 g
Dimensions: Height 15 cm. Diameter 15.5 cm

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2021, lot 123
Estimate: USD 200,000 or approx. EUR 213,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A superb black-glazed 'Cizhou' sgraffiato 'peony' 'tulu' vase, Northern Song / Jin dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related form and sgraffiato decoration. Note the larger size (23 cm). Note that this compares the present lot with a confirmed original from the period.

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