Lot 810. A rare large Cizhou black-glazed ribbed truncated meiping, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 8 ½ in. (22 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 68,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.

The vessel has a ribbed, globular body below a slightly waisted neck that rises to an everted rim with raised outer edge. It is covered with a blackish-brown glaze that thins to brown on the twenty-six ribs of trailed white slip, Japanese double wood box.

Japanese double wood box.

Provenance: Kochukyo, Tokyo.
Suichikudo, Tokyo.

Literature: Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 90, no. 31.

Exhibited: Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22-27 November 2012; New York 15-20 March 2013; London, 10-14 May 2013.

Note: A similar Cizhou truncated meiping was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3386.

Christie's. Masterpieces of Cizhou Ware: The Linyushanren Collection Part IV. New York, 13 September 2018