A CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO 'PEONY' MEIPING, NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

A CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO 'PEONY' MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The vase is carved with a broad band of leafy peony scroll bearing three prominent blossoms between bands of overlapping diagonal petals on the shoulder and around the foot, all reserved in blackish-brown slip on a white slip ground and covered with a clear glaze.
12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance
The Sorimachi Shigesaku Collection.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Literature
Hasebe Gakuji, Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 12: Sung Dynasty, Tokyo, 1977, p. 240, no. 233.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 126-127, no. 50.
Rosemary Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 26.

Exhibited
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.