A Cizhou white glaze vase, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 803. A Cizhou white glaze vase, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 13 ½ in. (34.4 cm.) high. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 10,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
The vase has a tapering body rising to an angled shoulder and tall neck that flares slightly to the lipped rim, and is covered with a transparent glaze over a white slip ending inside the neck and above the flared foot, Japanese double wood box.
Japanese double wood box.
Provenance: Daijindo, Tokyo.
Note: A very similar vase in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, no. 77. Another similar example, but with a more globular body, is illustrated in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, no. 20.
Christie's. Masterpieces of Cizhou Ware: The Linyushanren Collection Part IV. New York, 13 September 2018