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A SMALL CARVED CIZHOU JAR, JIN

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A SMALL CARVED CIZHOU JAR, JIN

China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Freely carved through the brown slip to the cream-white layer beneath to depict three large peony blooms. The sturdy, bulbous body rising to a lipped rim.

Provenance: From the collection Dr. Francesco Rausi, the Italian Ambassador to South Korea. Acquired 1989 during the ambassador's visit to Beijing. Dr. Rausi was an avid collector of European and Korean ceramics, with a few early Chinese pieces completing his collection. A provenance letter is accompanying this lot, as well as the original TL Test from ARCADIA, TECNOLOGIE PER I BENI CULTURALI, Milan, Italy, dated 3/4/2008, which confirms the dating of this lot.
Condition: The glaze shows some calcification from burial, especially the cream-white layer is affected. Also, the band circling the foot bears massive earthen encrustations which cannot be removed. Accordingly, the neatly carved foot shows clear traces of erosion. Besides these natural signs of age, there are no noteworthy damages.

Weight: 1788,7 grams.
Dimensions: Height 16.8 cm.

This jar is impressive despite its small size due to its bold and vigorous floral scroll which has been endowed with an added sense of three-dimensionality through its carving and neatly incised lines. Vases decorated with in sgraffiato technique with large peony blooms, in which the design is carved through the dark slip covering a white slip beneath, were produced primarily at Cizhou kilns in the Guantai area, Cixian, Henan province, during the Northern Song dynasty, where fragments of similarly decorated vessels have been recovered, illustrated in The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, plate 21, no. 2.

Jars decorated with similar peony motifs are more commonly known of larger size, such as one included in the exhibition Song Ceramics, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999, cat. no. 93, and a meiping vase, from the collection of Margaret C. Osgood, now in the Worcester Art Museum, included in the exhibition 'Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China'.

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A SMALL CARVED CIZHOU JAR, JIN

China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Freely carved through the brown slip to the cream-white layer beneath to depict three large peony blooms. The sturdy, bulbous body rising to a lipped rim.

Provenance: From the collection Dr. Francesco Rausi, the Italian Ambassador to South Korea. Acquired 1989 during the ambassador's visit to Beijing. Dr. Rausi was an avid collector of European and Korean ceramics, with a few early Chinese pieces completing his collection. A provenance letter is accompanying this lot, as well as the original TL Test from ARCADIA, TECNOLOGIE PER I BENI CULTURALI, Milan, Italy, dated 3/4/2008, which confirms the dating of this lot.
Condition: The glaze shows some calcification from burial, especially the cream-white layer is affected. Also, the band circling the foot bears massive earthen encrustations which cannot be removed. Accordingly, the neatly carved foot shows clear traces of erosion. Besides these natural signs of age, there are no noteworthy damages.

Weight: 1788,7 grams.
Dimensions: Height 16.8 cm.

This jar is impressive despite its small size due to its bold and vigorous floral scroll which has been endowed with an added sense of three-dimensionality through its carving and neatly incised lines. Vases decorated with in sgraffiato technique with large peony blooms, in which the design is carved through the dark slip covering a white slip beneath, were produced primarily at Cizhou kilns in the Guantai area, Cixian, Henan province, during the Northern Song dynasty, where fragments of similarly decorated vessels have been recovered, illustrated in The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, plate 21, no. 2.

Jars decorated with similar peony motifs are more commonly known of larger size, such as one included in the exhibition Song Ceramics, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999, cat. no. 93, and a meiping vase, from the collection of Margaret C. Osgood, now in the Worcester Art Museum, included in the exhibition 'Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China'.

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??????1115-1234????????????????????????

??????????? Francesco Rausi?????1989?????????Rausi????????????????????????????? ?????ARCADIA, TECNOLOGIE PER I BENI CULTURALI ???2008?3?4???????????????????
??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????

???1788,7 ?
??? ?16.8 ??

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