A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT PAINTED CIZHOU 'FISH' TRUNCATED MEIPING, NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT PAINTED CIZHOU 'FISH' TRUNCATED MEIPING
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The vase has a rounded, ovoid body below a slightly waisted neck that rises to a lipped rim, and is painted in brownish-black slip with fish amidst water weeds on a creamy slip ground below a band of overlapping petals on the shoulder, all under a clear glaze. The foot ring is unglazed exposing the grey body.
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box

Provenance
The Takeji Yamada Collection, Ashiya.
Mayuyama, Tokyo.
The Ataka Collection.

Literature
Koyama Fujio, Soji, Tokyo, 1943, no. 37.
Koyama Fujio, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu (Collection of World’s Ceramics), vol. 10: China Sung and Liao Dynasties, Tokyo, 1955, p. 231, fig. 102.
Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Bi no bi ten (The Beauty of Beauty Exhibition), no. 6, Tokyo, 1967.
Koyama Fujio, ed., Toki Koza (Lecture of Ceramics), vol. 6: Chugoku II So (China II Song), Tokyo, 1971, no. 50.
Nihon Keizai Shinbusha, Ataka korekushon: chugoku toji meihin ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from the Ataka Collection), Tokyo, 1972, no. 23.
Hasebe Gakuji, ed., Toji Taikei (Compendium of Ceramics), vol. 39: Jishu Yo, Tokyo, 1974, no. 60.
Nihon Keizai Shinbusha, Ataka korekushohugoku toji meihin ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from the Ataka Collection), Tokyo, 1975, no. 35.
Mayuyama Junkichi, Ryusen Shuho (Mayuyama, Seventy Years), Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, no. 520.
Mikami Tsugio, Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 13: Liao, Chin and Yüan Dynasties, Tokyo, 1981, no. 246.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 136-137, no. 56.
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. 1.

Exhibited
Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Bi no bi ten (The Beauty of Beauty Exhibition), no. 6, Tokyo Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Department Store, 29 August to 3 September 1967.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Osaka Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ataka korekushon: chugoku toji meihin ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from the Ataka Collection), Osaka, November 1972.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ataka korekushon: chugoku toji meihin ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from the Ataka Collection), Tokyo, 15 September to 28 September 1975.
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.