An unusual Cizhou-type sgraffito vase, Liao Dynasty (AD 907-1125)
Lot 807. An unusual Cizhou-type sgraffito vase, Liao Dynasty (AD 907-1125). Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016
The high-shouldered vase is carved around the sides through the cream slip to the pale grey body with two large, leafy peony blossoms, beneath a band of petals around the shoulder at the base of the slender ribbed neck, all under a clear glaze. 14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) high.
Provenance: Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.
Notes: A vase of similar proportions, also with broad peony design beneath petal lappets, in the Liaoning Museum, was found in 1974 at Yemaotai town, Faku county, Liaoning province, and is illustrated by Zhang Bai, Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China - 2 - Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Beijing, 2008, no. 98.
Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza