A RARE AND IMPORTANT GREEN-GLAZED CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO 'PEONY' VASE, NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

A RARE AND IMPORTANT GREEN-GLAZED CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO 'PEONY' VASE
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The well-potted vase has a high-shouldered, tapering body supported on a tall, splayed foot and is surmounted by a trumpet neck that flares to an everted rim. The vase is carved through dark brown slip with two peony blossoms borne on a leafy scrolling stem, above a band of upright petals, and is covered overall with an iridescent, crackled green glaze.
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Registered in Japan as an Important Art Object in 1938; deregistered on 4 September 2015.

Provenance
The Sorimachi Shigesaku Collection.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Literature
Toki Zuroku (Ceramics Catalogue), vol. 7: China (I), Tokyo, 1938, no. 2.
Chugoku no Toji (Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1955, no. 210.
Hasebe Gakuji, Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 12: Song, Tokyo, 1977, no. 237.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 130-131, no. 52.
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. 24.

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.