ID 905647
Lot 839 | A VERY RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO VASE
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped vase has a wide neck that tapers to the flat, everted rim, and is carved on the body through the dark-brown glaze to the creamy-white slip ground with a wide band of geometric panels enclosing trefoil clouds on striated grounds, below a band of foliate scroll and a band of wavy lines on the neck. The top of the neck and the mouth rim are left in creamy white. The grooved foot and recessed base are unglazed.
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
Offered, Sotheby's London, 17 November 1999, lot 731.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. x2609.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty, Jin dynasty (1115-1234) |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty, Jin dynasty (1115-1234) |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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