A VERY RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO VASE NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

A VERY RARE CIZHOU SGRAFFIATO VASE
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped vase has a wide neck that tapers to the flat, everted rim, and is carved on the body through the dark-brown glaze to the creamy-white slip ground with a wide band of geometric panels enclosing trefoil clouds on striated grounds, below a band of foliate scroll and a band of wavy lines on the neck. The top of the neck and the mouth rim are left in creamy white. The grooved foot and recessed base are unglazed.
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance
Offered, Sotheby's London, 17 November 1999, lot 731.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. x2609.