Lot 9 元 磁州窰鶴鳳紋彩繪梅瓶

元 磁州窰鶴鳳紋彩繪梅瓶

GBP 10,000

10,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Overall good condition with typical flakes to the glaze, the largest at the shoulder with associated glaze lines. A longer (ca. 15 cm) Y-shaped glaze line runs from the foot, as do 6 much shorter lines. The foot also with a shallow flake (ca. 3.5 x 1.2 cm) and other minor flakes and frits. Other typical firing imperfections include flaking to brown slip around the mouth and divots in the clay body. Overall a rare and finely painted example of its type.

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Height 34.8 cm, 13¾ in.
来源：Yamanaka & Co.，紐約
紐約帕克伯內特，1944年5月25日，編號345
Mildred R.（ 1908-2000）及 Rafi Y.（ 1901-1978）Mottahedeh收藏
紐約蘇富比，2000年9月20日，編號96
倫敦蘇富比，2010年5月12日，編號54
展览：《The Animal in Chinese Art》，東方陶瓷學會，倫敦，1968年，編號439，圖版13B
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说明：See a meiping formerly in the Howard Hollis collection and included in the exhibition Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien-Lung. A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1952, cat. no. 216; another 'Cizhou' vase of this type boldly painted in dark brown with an animated dragon amidst spiral clouds, sold in our New York rooms, 18th September 1996, lot 184; and a third example, painted with figures, from the collection of Gustaf Hillestrom and included in the exhibition Kina som Hobby, Ostasiatiska Museet, Stockholm, 1968, cat. no. 27b, sold in these rooms, 16 December 1980, lot 533.
The bird and flower motif can be found on a 'Cizhou' guan jar from the collection of Thos. Barlow Walker, sold in our New York rooms, 26th September 1972, lot 696. Compare also a jar painted with phoenix, excavated from the ruins of the Yuan capital Dadu, modern Beijing, included in the exhibition Archaeological Treasures Excavated in the People's Republic of China, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1973, cat. no. 228.
Related designs of phoenix and dragons in cartouches are more commonly found on guan jars, such as one in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, included in the exhibition Freedom of Clay and Brush. Tz’u-chou Type Wares, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, cat. no. 93; two sold in our London rooms, the first, 5th July 1977, lot 140, and the second, 7th December 1993, lot 174; and another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May 1982, lot 83. See also a jar painted with phoenix, excavated from the ruins of the Yun capital Dadu, included in the exhibition Archaeological Treasures Excavated in the People’s Republic of China, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1973, cat. no. 228.